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 ...

WISPIT 2b is present between the third and fourth disks of WISPIT, 434 light-years away from Earth, and was captured by ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

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

In an extraordinary testament to the predictive power of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a star system has been ...

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

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

According to China's space agency, the government is preparing to test a direct method of planetary defense by sending a ...

On September 12, the UK Fireball Alliance announced that the search is targeted across a 12-mile stretch of the Scottish ...