TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Known for their unusual, sidewinding crawl across shifting desert sands, sidewinder rattlesnakes are truly one of nature’s ...

Xinting Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize. The national award from ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA’s tally of ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Every year on 16 September, the UN celebrates the international community’s success in healing the ozone layer and brings ...

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