New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...

The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but instead a directed craft.

"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity," said Avi Loeb.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...

A team of interdisciplinary UCF researchers are leading a NASA research project to prevent abrasive, harmful lunar dust ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

So this is the first opportunity we have to look at what we think was *** really critical stage of evolution in our own solar ...