With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

When we think of a day, we usually imagine 24 hours. But did you know that not all planets have days that last 24 hours? In ...

Astronomers say the water that fills Earth's oceans — and the stuff you use to brew your morning cup of coffee or tea — may be older than the sun itself.

In collaboration with a Japanese university, NASA researchers used supercomputers to predict when life will no longer be ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a lot of interest lately, especially after the 2022 Decadal Survey from the ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller celestial bodies in the ...

Scientists detect heavy water in a planet-forming disk for the first time, revealing ancient cosmic origins. Read the full ...

The Sun is a very hot, very big ball of gas at the center of our solar system. Its surface can reach a blistering 10,800 ...

A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in the dawn sky ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have ...

Researchers are interested in analyzing these rare remnants from "proto-Earth" because it would give them an idea about the ...