Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015, it has changed how scientists think about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Far beyond Neptune lies a vast and unsettling frontier filled with dwarf planets, ancient ice worlds, collapsing atmospheres, ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think ...

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be liquid water on its surface and a suitable atmosphere for life.

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

There's a lot of snow falling, and in some places that is good news for travelers. Here's how to visit the snowiest places on ...

The giant planet Jupiter is back in our evening sky this week. Fresh from its opposition with the sun on Jan. 10, it now lies as close to the Earth as it ...

Winning championships is the goal, but for the front office, the real scoreboard is the balance sheet. In an era where media ...