Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Full Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNO079G1i8 Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday ...

Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white dwarf WD 1647+375 have discovered the biggest quantity of nitrogen ever seen ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Permits are piling up in Honolulu just weeks after a new system was put in place to try and speed up the process. The city Department of Planning and Permitting said the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf devouring a Pluto-like body. | Credit: NASA, Tim Pyle ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

The supply agreement will likely aid Fortescue’s planned 644MW Turner River solar PV power plant in Western Australia. Image: Fortescue Fortescue has established a strategic partnership with Chinese ...

A solar eclipse is what occurs when the moon comes in between the sun and the Earth, and a partial eclipse is what happens when that alignment is imperfect. The moon will only partly cover the sun, ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...