Could Primordial Black Holes be what the Universe's dark matter is made of?

Located in the Auriga Constellation, roughly 4000 light years from Earth, is the open star cluster known as Messier 36 (aka. the Pinwheel Cluster)

At the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop this week, NASA made a series of presentations outlining plants to explore Europa and other places in the Solar System where life could exist.

Analysis by a team of international researchers has found an asteroid pair has formed tails after they split, making them more like comets than asteroids.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is different than the other Super Telescopes. It has its own agenda.

Ever watch the Moon cover up a star? There's a great chance to see just such an event this coming weekend, when the waxing gibbous Moon occults (passes in front of) the bright star Aldebaran for much of North America.

Tis a season of incredible wind driven activity on Mars like few before witnessed by our human emissaries ! Its summer on the Red Planet and the talented scientists directing NASA's Curiosity rover have targeted the robots cameras so proficiently that they have efficiently spotted a multitude of 'Dust Devils' racing across the dunes fields of Gale Crater.

At the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, Director Jim Green and a panel of scientists proposed deploying a magnetic shield to protect Mars.

A study by a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield suggests that stars being ripped apart due to galactic collisions might be 100 times more common than previously thought.

Mars' northern polar region is home to long lines of small pits, hinting at the presence of some dynamic process in the ice cap.

A new study by a team of astronomers from the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University indicates that habitable zones may be bigger than previously thought.

Once the E-ELT is completed in 2014, it will be the largest optical/infrared observatory in the world.

The TRAPPIST 7 have some explaining to do. Are they really Earth-like and potentially habitable?

As the closest (and most eccentric) planet to our Sun, Mercury's distance ranges from 46 million km (28.58 million mi) at perihelion to 57.9 million km (35.98 million mi) at aphelion.

Sam Monfort, a Doctoral Candidate at George Mason University, has created a series of visuals that illustrate the trends in UFO reporting.

A new study by an international team of scientists may be the "missing link" in our understanding of how planets form from debris disks.