In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Get ready to have space "smile" back at you Friday morning, April 25, as Venus and Saturn align with the moon to create a smile.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... sort of primordial matter in the solar system," Affholder said. "When you look at asteroids, comets, the clouds of particles and gas from which stars and planets ...

I'd hardly call most sci-fi like Star Trek or Mass Effect educational ... along with every known planet, moon, black hole, and celestial phenomenon that we know about (or rather, knew about ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study usin ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, confirming a theory about the formation of our solar system.

Francis' 12-year papacy was a remarkable one, working in service to the church until the very day before he died. He sought ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system ... More than eight times the mass of Earth and 2.5 times as big, ...

Instead, it looked like a "regular" star with about 70% of the mass of our sun ... Institute of Technology. "The planet, as it's falling in, started to sort of smear around the star." ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...