A striking new image of the strange interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has revealed it is growing a tail, offering more proof that ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

CBS News looked at the cost of producing coal, gas, nuclear, wind and solar energy to determine which is the cheapest.

Venus’ surface is pocked with round, crown-like features known as coronae. The more-or-less round features can look like ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

SPEEDY COMETS “Dark Comets,” by Robin George Andrews, describes a group of objects in our solar system with “unexplained” ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the U.S. – including Florida.

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...