We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Mars’s gravity shapes ice ages on Earth, new research finds - 'Without Mars, Earth’s orbit would be missing major climate ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.

To reach Uranus is to journey into the absolute unknown. Situated in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, nearly 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, this Ice Giant is a world of paradoxes. It is ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special. Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...