Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

NASA is preparing to launch PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), a groundbreaking mission that will use four satellites to study the solar wind in 3D. The mission, set to launch on ...

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...