Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

The district attorneys of San Francisco, Alameda County, and three other counties settled a lawsuit with a solar energy ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

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

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean ...

Iron Mountain's New Jersey data center will add a 23 MWh battery storage to pair with solar, boosting reliability and easing ...

Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current.

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Suzie Dills says people in Canton will be able to see a total lunar eclipse in March. Here's when and where to look.

A star returning to the solar system after bizarrely disappearing for nine months. And not just any star, ASASSN-24fw is twice the size of the sun — so when astronomers were having trouble spotting it ...