(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — Peterson Space Force Base held the grand opening of a new, innovative running trail on Tuesday, March 17, which gives Guardians, Airmen, and their families the chance to stay ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

Explore the vast distances between planets and objects in our solar system, and why most of the space around us is a wide expanse of emptiness.

Oxford-led team found a sulfur-rich exoplanet with a vast magma ocean, 35 light-years away, challenging current planet classifications.

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

The planet orbits a small red dwarf star around 35 light years from Earth and is five billion years old ...

Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space? In a groundbreaking study ...