Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

CBS News looked at the cost of producing coal, gas, nuclear, wind and solar energy to determine which is the cheapest.

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the U.S. – including Florida.

Andrews’s article notes that the cause of the observed acceleration of some items passing through our solar system is unclear ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable ...