First rocky planet found orbiting white dwarf offers insight into Earth's potential survival after sun's death.

Astronomers say that the first rocky planet orbiting an extinct star called a "white dwarf" gives an idea of what the Earth ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

While the poet Robert Frost wrote that “Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice,” earthlings may take cold comfort from a newly published discovery that suggests the latter is more likely ...

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

While the poet Robert Frost wrote that “Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice,” earthlings may take cold ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of objects beyond the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the existence of a second, more distant belt in our solar system.

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that ...

Astronomers comparing data taken by Dawn with models of Ceres on Earth determined that organics on its surface came from ...