Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet in August 2012 ... a size not seen anywhere on Earth. Just like home, the winds on Mars travel in ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

This story centers on a rare mineral encased in a diamond, a substance that could never survive on the planet's surface ... holds a never-before-seen mineral that can't exist on Earth's surface ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

The two pervading theories for Venus' history include the planet having always been as hot as it is today, meaning that water ...

Our own planet, for example, had a devastating rendezvous with its sister protoplanet, and remnants of that interaction can still be found deep in the Earth’s lower mantle. Meteorites littered across ...