How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In ...

An international research team led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has discovered two new planets performing ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Our Solar System is home to eight extraordinary planets, each with its own unique features, mysteries, and beauty. This cosmic journey takes you from the Sun-scorched surface of Mercury to the icy ...

To scrutinize Saturn’s innards, scientists turned to the planet’s rings, which act like a seismograph and record the gas giant’s internal sloshing and pulsing. By decoding subtle ripples in ...

The small-but-mighty Neptune Oyster House is known for their gorgeous oysters, sitting neatly over ice in a tantalizing ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...