Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Elizabeth Warren Spells Out What Democrats Must Do 'With Urgency’ Before Trump Takes Power Parents of resilient kids always do these 7 things, says psychology professor and child development ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

A ROCKY alien world is so toasty that Nasa says it "could be another circle of hell". The scorching 6,800C planet is called Kepler-70b (or KOI-55b), and it's just over 4,000 light-years from Earth.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

The rocks indicate an ancient, iron-rich environment, but the rover wasn't able study details of the rock's composition.

The planet is believed to have once been a gas giant – but evaporation has dramatically reduced it to a fiery terrestrial worldCredit: Nasa It's described as a "terrestrial" planet – a rocky ...