How long will it be before the Earth essentially 'dies' and all active processes grind to a halt ?
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has identified what appears to be an ice volcano on the dwarf planet's surface.
An asteroid that was discovered only last week narrowly missed hitting the planet a few hours later.
The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.
NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to fly within 2,500 miles of the planet Jupiter later on today.
NASA's exploratory rover has recorded an impressive panoramic image from the surface of the Red Planet.
Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system.
China is aiming to revolutionize space travel by developing an ambitious new plane/spacecraft hybrid.
These carnivorous ocean-dwellers are now thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet.
A huge space rock almost half a mile wide has the potential to hit our planet within the next 200 years.
Manganese found inside rocks on Mars could mean that the Red Planet once had oxygen in its atmosphere.
Scientists have been attempting to determine why the dwarf planet Ceres has no large craters at all.
Astronomers have identified a previously unknown dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.
The newly discovered exoplanet experiences days lasting up to 140 Earth-years thanks to its trio of suns.
A Cambridge scientist maintains that there may be far more planets in the solar system than we realize.
Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet in a distant binary star system.
Moon Ribas can feel every earthquake on the planet through a special seismic sensor implanted in her arm.
Despite being comparable in size to Pluto and Eris, this enigmatic world has yet to even be given a name.
Astronomers have identified three new terrestrial worlds around a relatively close 'ultracool' star.
Scientists have been exploring ambitious new ways to effectively cool, rather than to warm up the planet.