There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

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In a pair of papers published in 2018 and 2021 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, planetary scientist Steve ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least ...

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

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

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Our sun's fiery flares are even more extreme than scientists had thought, blasting particles to temperatures six times hotter ...

Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets.

Initially, it was classified as a comet, but the object's behavior and composition did not match any known comet models. What sets ‘Oumuamua apart is its high reflectivity, unusual elongated or ...

Scientists have proposed an alternate theory about the origin of the interstellar visitor racing towards the inner solar ...