A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

China’s successful pursuit of innovation means that an authoritarian superpower is now capable of challenging the United States in East Asia, supporting autocracies worldwide, and shaping global ...

Zero-Based Law Enforcement incorporates several philosophical aspects. One of those aspects is proactivity. In other words, ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun on Feb. 17, setting the stage for a dramatic annular solar eclipse.

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Keeping a cool head is difficult at the best of times, least of all when it’s summer and merely thinking of touching bare ...