Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It’s called a "Super-Earth" because it’s ...

After a year and a half of moving back and forth between Capricorn and Aquarius, Pluto makes its final entrance into boundary ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

Another major buffer for the earth’s climate system is the net absorption of carbon by terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

The International Space Station - a blazing symbol of humanity’s destiny to move out across the cosmos - must be saved from ...

If the Key is removed, the configuration fails, just as if the planet that has the maximum mass and the strongest gravitational field is no longer around to keep the solar system in balance ... attain ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...