According to a new study, the nearest planet to the Sun may have once been a lot more habitable.
The results of a recent experiment suggest that it is not just animals that can sense our planet's magnetism.
Planets with two suns like Luke Skywalker's homeworld may be as common as planets orbiting a solitary star.
Scientists have announced the discovery of 139 new objects situated in the far reaches of our solar system.
Scientists have identified an extrasolar planet with some of the most hostile surface conditions ever seen.
A surprisingly large number of people in Brazil subscribe to the idea that our planet is not what it seems.
Scientists now believe that the entire planet was covered in water and devoid of continents in the distant past.
New Horizons' encounter with a Kuiper belt object has turned what we know of planet formation on its head.
Scientists have identified the oldest material ever to make it onto our planet - and it even predates the Sun.
Astronomers have discovered a huge planet orbiting the burnt-out husk of a star that was once like the Sun.
A passenger who sat near Cooper during his infamous plane heist has spoken out about his experience.
It turns out that planets could orbit a black hole in much the same way as our own planet orbits the Sun.
A conspiracy theorist who had been filming a plane's vapor trail also managed to pick up a strange object in the sky.
An aircraft designed to survive a nuclear apocalypse recently suffered a rather unfortunate mishap.
A new paper has suggested that we may have no choice but to spread microorganisms to the Red Planet.
The undiscovered theoretical planet in the outer reaches of our solar system may actually be a black hole.
Palaeontologists have identified one of the largest flying creatures ever to live on planet Earth.
Water vapor has been identified on what is being hailed as the most habitable exoplanet found to date.
A land and air search was undertaken on Sunday after members of the public saw a glowing object in the sky.
The US military's secretive pint-sized spacecraft has now spent a whopping 717 days up in space non-stop.