Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

This week, the night sky offers a rare and captivating display as two of our solar system's most distant planets, Saturn and Neptune, reach opposition according to IFLScience. This celestial event ...

You may have noticed that the Northern Lights have shown up in some unusual places over the past year and a half. That’s because the sun is currently in what’s known as a solar maximum phase of Solar ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well.

For years, astronomers have been excited about the idea that some planets beyond our solar system might be covered by vast, ...

The Earth will be between the planet and the Sun this evening - a configuration known as opposition. During this point, ...

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

Seismic studies reveal Mars may have a solid inner core. The result deepens knowledge of its evolution and lost magnetic field. Researchers have determined that Mars shares a structural similarity ...

Scientists have discovered new information about the interstellar object nearing Earth which could reveal facts about the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...