Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

The moon crossed the sun's path on February 17, causing what is known as an annular solar eclipse. The sun was not covered ...

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...

WASHINGTON – Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after ...

Colorectal cancer has long baffled scientists because, unlike most tumors, patients often do better when their cancers are packed with immune-suppressing regulatory T cells. New research finally ...

The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing comet two months after it made its closest approach to the sun. When you ...

There seems to be an enormous cloud of dark matter next to our solar system. We have never found one of these clouds in the Milky Way before, but precise cosmic clocks called pulsars finally made it ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system. It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little ...

Last year, a viral drone video from China’s Guizhou province revealed an entire mountain range blanketed in solar panels stretching to the horizon. It’s a stunning visual, but it doesn’t even begin to ...