Mars has long been pictured as a cold, quiet desert, its famous dust storms more cinematic backdrop than active player in the ...

Scientists looking into the cause of mammoth dust storms that can sweep across nearly all of Mars think they’ve discovered a key factor behind these rollicking storms. The driving forces behind ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Of all the planets in the Solar System, Earth is the only one that has liquid water on its surface and can support life. Earth orbits within the Sun's habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks Zone ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

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On Mars, the sky is dust. A massive dust storm on Mars that covered one-fourth of the planet just a week ago has grown into a global weather event, NASA officials said Wednesday (June 20). The dust ...

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light-years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer ...

NASA scientists are still holding out hope they will hear from the surprisingly long-lived Mars rover. It went into snooze mode earlier this month, thanks to a gargantuan dust storm on the Red Planet ...

A giant dust storm has enveloped the entire planet of Mars, with dust clouds reaching up to 40 miles high, NASA announced Wednesday. The dust storm has silenced NASA's solar-powered rover Opportunity ...