Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

The candidate planet, known as HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be slightly larger than Earth ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

The curious minds at What If take us on a cosmic auditory journey, imagining what it would be like to hear the distinctive ...

NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the ...

During a special observation run from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) repeatedly ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Jupiter and Saturn host strikingly different polar storms, despite being similar giant planets, and scientists have long wondered why. New simulations suggest the answer may lie deep below the clouds.

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...