Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

Scerchia and his team are now exploring the outer reaches of our solar system to find other star systems with ringed moons orbiting planets. 'I can't help but wonder what kind of myths and stories ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

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According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to the bottom of whether Pluto is a planet, I tracked down planetary scientist ...

VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet's surface in an "extreme" car ... it'll be free for use for other commercial jobs – like if Lunar Outpost gets any special space contracts.