If you've ever wondered about the origins of Star Trek's United Federation of Planets, check out our handy an explainer about ...

a different Federation existed before the creation of the United Federation of Planets. Star Trek writer Gene L. Coon is credited with creating the Federation, and helping to establish Starfleet ...

For those hoping to see a reunion with Pluto, which was considered the solar system's ninth planet until it was redefined as a "dwarf planet," in 2006, don't get your hopes up. Pluto will be below ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet ... last and least of them. An icy dwarf only half the size of the United States, it was on average 3.7 ...

Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ... launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's ...

She said a key difference in the star/planet systems ... in the United Kingdom. More information: Aomawa L. Shields et al, Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative ...

They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a warmer climate ... and Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay of the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.