A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe.

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

Scientists have not yet found direct evidence of a moon outside our solar system -- but they just found a hint of a hellish one.

Recent breakthroughs in lunar sample analysis from both the Apollo 16 mission and the far side of the moon have unveiled ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) famously demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct ...

The comet—traveling about 44 million miles away—was observed from Earth for the first time earlier this month.