Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

Picanha has long been prized in Brazilian steakhouses, but its global popularity is fairly recent. Never heard of it? For those playing culinary catch-up, here's a picanha primer. Emergency crews ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...