A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the highly unusual outburst in printed out records, annotating the major radio ...

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...