A newly analyzed planetary system has turned up a world orbiting at such a skewed angle that it defies the neat textbook ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

Commercial spaceflight is booming and looks to go into full-on kaboom stage in the near future, sparking the need for an ever ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has ...

The Solar Group of Companies has completed the acquisition of a 51% stake in Elvis-Plus, bringing the total ownership of the asset to 100%. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. This is ...