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

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

Comets do outgas in strange ways; icy jets can mimic controlled propulsion; dust tails and solar radiation can disturb paths ...

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

In 1633, Galileo Galilei was brought before the Inquisition for supporting the Copernican model of the solar system. That’s ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

The world's largest annual public space event, World Space Week (WSW), has officially launched, celebrating science, ...

Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond ...

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

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a $250 million fund for off-grid solar in Africa and Chinese solar giant ...