A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

This smartwatch takes the best bits from Garmin's pricier outdoor watches and squeezes them into a rugged body with an AMOLED ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The cameras are equipped with polarizing filters, similar to polarized sunglasses, that enable them to make maps of features in the corona and across the solar system. Together, the four ...

Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a ...

MAPS GEN II is comprised of the company's NavHub™-100 navigation system and Multi-Sensor Antenna System (MSAS-100) and supports multiple mission sets including combat, artillery fires ...

The cameras are equipped with polarizing filters, similar to polarized sunglasses, that enable them to make maps of features in the corona and across the solar system. Together, the four ...

This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether the Moon's inner heart is solid or molten, and lead to a more accurate understanding of the Moon's history – and, by extension, ...