Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.

Scientists have confirmed a massive underground lava tunnel beneath Venus using radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission.

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor ...

The planet’s third biggest polluter is adding wind and solar and electrifying transport at a faster pace than China did at the same levels of development, new research finds. Its clean energy boom wil ...

Discovery Channel's 120 Hours Behind Bars reality series premiered Jan. 19. Discovery's "120 Hours Behind Bars" filmed at the Hamilton corrections facility for the new reality series. The Butler ...