Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

Today marks a new era in the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Meenakshi Wadhwa takes the reins as the 12th ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

A baby world just drifting through space without a star to call home has been caught in a record-smashing feeding frenzy.

Using the Open Exoplanet Catalog and NASA’s Eye on Exoplanets website provides new way to study Kepler’s and Newton’s laws ...

A young rogue planet 620 light-years from Earth has baffled scientists as it puts on a record-breaking 'growth spurt'.

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

Bill Nye recently revived his show to raise awareness around Friedreich's ataxia, a rare disease. He is also working to ...

Over 80% of NASA's workforce is being told to stay home. More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S ...

A major international study has identified Antarctic sea ice as a critical predictor of how much heat Earth’s oceans will ...

A new study published in Nature shows that as the global economy more than doubled between 2000 and 2022, it still left billions of people without life's essentials, while rapidly pushing Earth's life ...