Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring ... is a super-Earth planet in the distant solar system, but ...

Back then, those strange invertebrates might have been able to look up through the nighttime shallows and see the glow of Earth’s very own ring ... over from our solar system’s formation ...

NARRATOR: And of all the worlds in our Solar System, ours hits the icy jackpot. The ice we have here on Earth is special ... Adorned with its famous icy rings. Saturn's rings are truly the ...

Back then, those strange invertebrates might have been able to look up through the nighttime shallows and see the glow of Earth’s very own ring, which may have been ... chunk of rock left over from ...

Protoplanetary disks are rotating rings of gas and dust ... for clues about the origin of our solar system. Russell, however, is troubled at the thought of Earth’s meteorites representing ...

even as it pulls away from the Sun and Earth on its way back toward the outer reaches of the solar system. Currently hovering between 1st and 2nd magnitude, the comet can be spotted with naked ...

Around our solar system, violent eruptions ... Even farther from Earth than Jupiter, across a great gulf of space, lies the next planet. Saturn's rings loop for hundreds of thousands of miles.

Rings are a pretty common phenomenon in our solar system: All of the large planets have them, as do several dwarf planets. Now, a new look at old impact craters suggests Earth may once have had a ...

Hessl recently received over $202,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to further investigate the connection between tree rings and space weather. Her research focuses on how solar ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.