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

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

Fresh JWST data and new models challenge methane hints on TRAPPIST-1e, showing the gas would be rare, unstable, and difficult ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Perihelion, the point in a planet’s orbit where it is closest to the Sun, is a fascinating phenomenon that shapes much of our understanding of planetary motion. While Earth’s proximity to the Sun ...

Using the Parker Solar Probe and other near-Earth spacecraft, scientists have made and validated the first 2D maps of the Sun ...

Working through years' worth of data from an old observational campaign, a team of astronomers have directly imaged a new exoplanet, meaning a planet that exists outside our solar system. New Mexico ...

Of the seven Earth-sized planets circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one world has become a special focus for astronomers. This planet ...

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this ...