Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Released in Early Access and set to come to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S at a later date sometime in 2026, Enshrouded is an ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...