A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

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The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust. In fact, it could have all ...

Watch our Discussed episode where we dive deeper into the topic with Dr. Jack Madden: <a href=" have discovered many planets ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its fourth close pass of the innermost planet last week, and it will enter Mercury’s orbit in 2026 to learn more about its mysteries ...

“Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn will be spread across the sky from east to west about 30 minutes before ...

Although the fossil fuel industry is on record opposing the bill, Bryan agreed to limit the legislation’s scope to Inglewood ...

Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they come with a big challenge: they ...