When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

Snapchat, the popular messaging app known for self-deleting messages and fun chat features, also offers a paid plan called ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the ...

NASA has revealed a terrifying glimpse into our solar system 's grizzly fate. In five billion years, scientists believe the ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

The discovery of a meteorite older than Earth in the UK is a chance to learn about the early solar system. The rock seems to have come from the protoplanetary disk that birthed the planets. The young ...