Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among ...

The planet that appears so steady beneath our feet is, in reality, subtly reorienting itself in space. As ice melts, oceans swell and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers, the balance of mass on ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...

Earth would certainly be different without its rusty red neighbor. No Mars in the night sky, no target for future human exploration. Now, however, scientists say this scenario would result in much ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

An exciting new chapter in Marvel Comics' storied history with Planet of the Apes begins next February with Planet of the Apes vs. Fantastic Four, the groundbreaking science fiction franchise's ...

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

See how your body would react and change on different planets. Rupert Murdoch warns judge of Donald Trump’s ‘red herring’ Scientists Studied 'SuperAgers' For 25 Years And Found That They All Have This ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. By squeezing and heating planetary analog materials between the tips of two ...

Warm Jupiters – gas giants parked closer to their stars than Jupiter is to the Sun – keep turning up with orbits that are stretched but strangely well-behaved. Many of these planets move in long ovals ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...