An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

The discovery of a new asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has led to chatter that it's a second moon.

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Technically, it's not a real moon. It's what scientists call a quasi-moon—a space rock that doesn't orbit Earth directly but ...

As the temperatures begin to drop and it finally begins to feel like fall, events across the Twin Cities are celebrating the ...

Enchiladas and carne asada are on the menu, as are tacos and arroz con pollo, just to name a few choices. Part of the McClatchy Media Network ...