The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The Divine Nine is the nickname of a group of nine historically Black Greek-letter organizations called the National ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

Hawaii’s regular sunshine, short rain showers and clean air come together to create some of the planet’s best conditions for ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

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According to the Pew Research Center, 41.9 million people in 22.2 million households benefited from SNAP vouchers in April 2023. Welfare is a term that dates from the 1960s for government-funded ...