The founder of Mt. Gox, Ripple and Stellar has shed more light on his plans to launch a commercial space station into orbit ...

The vernal equinox, which occurs at the start of astronomical spring, is when the sun's rays equally shine on both of the ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Earth's northern hemisphere warms up literally for the astronomical start to spring. Here's what to know about the season.

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...

The planet is about six times more massive than Earth and could be rocky, offering a unique opportunity to study a heavier ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

Artist's rendering of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794.Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) The ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...