At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

There, nitrogen and methane have turned into ice, covering the entire planet. Yet in this icy landscape, scientists speculate that there may be a liquid ocean beneath the ice, and this ocean might ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

This quiz invites you to chase comets through time and space, from ancient omens to modern scientific marvels.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...

The UK government and solar industry have jointly published a long-anticipated roadmap detailing how to maximise the ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the over half mile-long space rock ...