Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own ... The four giant planets have rings, and there's evidence that Mars has had one, too. This raises the question: could Earth ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

"We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

Uranus is heating up from the inside. Uranus was always seen as a tilted, distant, and kind of boring world. Scientists used ...

THE mysterious interstellar object blazing through our solar system could be a piece of “possibly hostile” alien technology, ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

Earth may have at least 6 'minimoons' at any given time. Where do they come from? Is Mars really red? A physicist explains the truth. The moon: Facts about our planet's lunar companion ...

Does climate change impact Earth's rotation? Climate change—again and seemingly always—may play a role too. Last year, two NASA-funded studies found that since 2000, melting glaciers have ...

The Lord of the Rings is a franchise that remains a fan favorite. The trilogy of epic fantasy and adventure films by Peter ...