Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was ...

Earth on Thursday, hinting that there are more threats than just xenomorphs in this series. We know the show is about a spaceship crash-landing on Earth, but it seems there’s more aboard the vessel ...

The blood trail led out of the room and into the hallway. With half trepidation, half glee I tiptoed over the wide red smear, following it to its source: a crime scene in space. I’d arrived on the set ...

As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to the innermost planet, and while researchers say they are ...

This week, momentum is building around nuclear fusion, as tech investment and breakthroughs suggest it may arrive sooner than ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that will have to adjust in their wake. While there is no ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, sweeping across the planet's cloud tops.

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

In the Alien movies, one killer species is more than enough for humanity to deal with. Actually, it’s almost always too much.