The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.