In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued.

While Planet Y has been not yet been directly observed, unexpected inclinations found in the orbits of roughly 50 distant ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses into clouds and falls as ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometres below the Earth ...

In our oceans things are changing too, with warmer ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and rising sea levels (thanks to ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of ...

The JWST has found evidence of auroras and clouds in the atmosphere of the giant rogue planet SIMP-0136, but the causes must be very different from anything we see within the Solar System. When ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, ...