Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

SMC Planetarium offers solar system and black hole shows in January and February, with tickets $7-16. Shows run Fridays at ...

In a new study, scientists used advanced computer models to peer beneath Jupiter's dense swirling cloud tops and tackle a ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...