A 'thick blanket of gas' over the distant planet is reshaping what scientist believed to be true.

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Something happened to the probe on the far side of the Red Planet.

Time is not the same everywhere in space. On Mars, it flows on average 477 microseconds more each Earth day (24h) than on ...

Wildfires rage, yet many snakes slither on. Here’s how ancient survival tricks may be helping reptiles outlast climate-driven ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Jupiter shines brilliantly in the eastern sky this December as it nears opposition early in 2026, outshining nearby stars and ...

NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014. The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...