Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

Scientists have long wondered why carbon-rich meteorites appear less affected by violent impacts than those lacking the stuff ...

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know exactly where to look? What else could the ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...