Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years ...

How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona ...

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New simulations suggest NASA’s upcoming mission could finally solve the mystery.

Scientists May Have Caught A Star In The Middle Of Building A Planet In A Nutshell Astronomers have identified a star system roughly 11,500 light-years away that appears to be generating a massive ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...