This is how the existence of dark matter was first inferred over large (galactic) scales. But could dark matter similarly ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology By analyzing the movements of ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...

Those rings, however, are going to “disappear” in 2025 . Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

We have studied the skies for centuries, but we have only found two objects known to come from another star system. The first ...