Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

The sun will eventually become a red giant, engulfing Earth in about 5 billion years. More solar energy hits Earth in one ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Ceres holds plenty of water to sustain life and can also act as propulsion fuel. A study has proposed building a space ...

But to get access to this wealth of this particularly valuable material, engineers would first have to get it out of Ceres's (admittedly tiny) gravity well. That is where a space elevator comes in.

What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a ...

A planet far, far away A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was ...

A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was previously thought empty.