Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

For more than a decade, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division has invested in regional schools through STEM events, ...

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

"This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system," study lead author Thomas Wilson, physics professor from the University of Warwick, said in a statement. "Rocky planets don't usually form ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

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 planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

Russia’s state-owned technology corporation Rostec said the latest Su-57 aircraft handed over to the Russian military feature enhanced onboard systems and a new weapons configuration that ...

A solar flare is an extremely bright flash of radiation. It occurs when magnetic energy associated with a sunspot is suddenly ...

NASA Solar System ambassador Charles Fulco, of Rye Brook, teaches elementary school students about the science behind space ...

Asteroids are not just random rocks — some are massive, fast, strangely shaped, or on trajectories that make scientists pay ...