A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

For Willie Shubert, journalism is a kind of cartography. “I studied geography,” he says. Mapmaking taught him how to see the ...

Multiverse Computing uses quantum-physics-inspired algorithms to shrink AI models—making them cheaper and more ...

This newly discovered comet could soon glow bright enough for the naked eye as it sweeps through October's morning and ...

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory ...

A global shift towards “healthier” diets could cut non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane, from agriculture by 15 ...

Interest in icy moons has been growing steadily as they become more and more interesting to astrobiologists. Some take the majority of the attention, like Enceladus with its spectacular geysers. But ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

A recent study introduces the idea of Planet Y, a theoretical world that could explain strange gravitational behavior beyond ...