For Hannaford, the crossover between space and extreme medicine is natural. “It’s all austere environments,” he says. “The ...

Seven Seven Six's Katelin Holloway represents non-technical VCs pouring billions into space startups, betting operational ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

A sunlike star next door called Alpha Centauri A may host a huge planet, researchers report in two studies in press in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet candidate orbits in its star’s ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

A bizarre planet may orbit two brown dwarfs in a steep, pole-skimming path—an unheard-of tilt that challenges our understanding of planetary motion. Detected via gravitational wobbles, it might be the ...

Pakistan, May 27 -- Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto's orbit. It takes 25,000 years to orbit the sun-much longer than Pluto's 248 years. This makes it ...

May 27, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses orbit their stars – sometimes ...

Named 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object is one of the most distant visible objects in our Solar System and is likely large (about 700 km in diameter) enough to qualify as a dwarf ...

After years of observation, researchers finally understand how a pair of stars can maintain a stable orbital dance with an elusive planet. In 2004, David Ramm at the University of Canterbury in New ...