"I think the discovery of distant objects and the determination of their orbital distribution are important as a stepping stone to understanding the formation history of the solar system ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Supporters say the Yakama case shows that if the White House can’t keep bureaucracy from undermining its own goals, then it’s ...

This variation in climate change would impact the efficiency of the solar roofing system from “spatially differentiated fluctuations” (Jiang et al., 2014). Additionally, to offset carbon emissions is ...

Renewable technologies are gathering speed, putting the world within reach of falling greenhouse gas emissions. Climate ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Here’s how it works. A passing star may be responsible for more than three-fourths of the moons in our solar system as the stellar traveler flung massive rocky bodies into our cosmic ...

For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...