Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

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A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.