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 ...

The Subaru Telescope has discovered new objects beyond the known Kuiper Belt, suggesting a more complex structure at the edge ...

It seems counterintuitive since it takes investment up front, but the decades of savings that follow provide an incredible ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite collisions with Earth have come from ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of ...

Since some of those space rocks date back to the very early days of our solar system—and have remained ... the origin of more than 90 percent of all known meteorites, demonstrating that a ...

These interactive displays demonstrated the scale and distance of our known solar system ... The project culminated in a Solar System Showcase, where students in all grades at the St. Francis ...

An international collaboration that includes an Oregon State University astrophysicist has identified a phenomenon, likened ...

While we need to continue to increase our output of food production to serve the growing global population, there may be a way to save a whole lot of land while growing even more food, and it involves ...

And the long-lived storm is so large — the biggest in the solar system — that Earth could ... While scientists have known that the westward drift of the storm has an unexplained 90-day ...