Artist's concept showing a very young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. (NASA/JPL) There are many contrasts between ice and fire in both real and fictional worlds – from the volcanoes of ...

Scientists with the U.S. National Science Foundation have identified a large object in the outer reaches of the solar system ...

What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel ...

When I say jump, you say how high. Let’s put this to the ultimate test by hopping around the Solar System. Literally. What ...

Astronomers have found a possible new dwarf planet beyond Pluto. And the remarkable thing is that they’d been photographing ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...