He noted, "Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of ... Ceres ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Scientists have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star 4,000 light years from here, giving us a humbling glimpse into Earth's likely fate.Published in Nature Astronomy, the planet, ...

and the 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star becomes more stormy and active. The TRACERS mission will specifically focus on ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

A Looney Tunes Movie” is one of the animated delights of the year. In the franchise’s first fully 2D-animated theatrical ...

"The findings not only provide further evidence to support the theory of a Martian ocean but also present, for the first time ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...