New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in our solar system.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

New Horizons spacecraft survives trip 1 billion miles beyond Pluto 02:03. It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...