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

A strange sea creature washed up dead on the coast of California, as shocked people watched. There were several of them in ...

A recent study reveals dynamic transformations in Earth's lower mantle, impacting both earthquakes and the magnetic field.

What if Pluto wasn’t the end? What if our Solar System hides dozens - maybe hundreds - of strange frozen worlds beyond ...

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

Strange blobs detected deep within Mars by NASA’s InSight lander may be remnants of the planet’s earliest “embryo,” according ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

The best-selling author of the Strange Planet series, Nathan Pyle, is in town touring for his first children's book. He'll be visiting schools Thursday and signing books Friday at the DaVinci Science ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...