Astronomers have just found 18 Earth-sized exoplanets, a huge feat in itself, but one of them looks remarkably similar to our own planet. Could a new technique ...

The football-shaped dwarf planet Haumea, which is surrounded by an almost perfectly circular ring of particles, is the most distant ringed object in the solar ...

PLANET NINE is believed to exist somewhere on the far fringes of the solar system, orbiting the Sun every 10000 to 20000 years – but were the Ancient ...

Our Moon features a nearside and far side with dramatically different geological features. This anomaly has puzzled scientists for years, but new computer ...

Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size.

A self-proclaimed earthquake mystic has warned the population of Earth to be on high alert as he believes a major tremor is on its way. The reason behind this ...

PLANET NINE was forcibly ejected out of the solar system by Saturn or Jupiter, an astronomer has shockingly revealed about the theoretical Planet 9.

Brian Wu, a teen researcher from New York City, has discovered a handful of distant planets, including a massive world that orbits two suns.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.

AUSTIN, Texas — Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the ...

The only small satellite in orbit that can also look for new planets beyond the solar system, ASTERIA recently peered down at Earth to capture an image of a ...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 23, 2019 - Most people behave differently when under extreme pressure. Carbon and ice are no different. Two new studies show ...

Our solar system is a stormy place. Join us on a tour of storms.

These two events will be preparing us for 'The Great Conjunction' between Jupiter and Saturn next year.

Pluto should not have an ocean. At 40 times further out in the solar system than the Earth, the Sun is just a bright star and “summer” is marked by temperatures ...

Supervillains take note: Even the biggest and baddest asteroids may not be 100% effective as doomsday devices. A cosmic impact powerful enough to wipe out ...

The fantastical planets in Star Wars preceded our discovery of real planets outside our solar system...but the facts aren't far from fiction.

The most realistic scenario involved a dwarf planet 480 miles in diameter colliding into the near side of the Moon at 14000 miles per hour.

Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life? And how do scientists identify those features on other worlds?

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon and Buddha Purnima.

There's way more to Saturn than its rings. The planet also boasts a collection of exotic, and still mysterious, moons.

In recent years, humanity's most brilliant minds have been working to send the first human to the Red Planet. According to physicist Brian Cox, Mars might be the ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA's first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target, the ...

Astronomers have found a third planet circling a pair of stars in the Kepler 47 system.

Mars, Venus and even Mercury were once “blue planets” just like earth, Professor Brian Cox will suggest in a new blockbuster BBC2 series, The Planets.

Without the moon and water, life on Earth wouldn't be possible. New research out of Germany suggests both were delivered by Theia, which collided with Earth ...

Anne is a planet hunter, although she feels like that makes her work sound a bit too exciting. Every day, she sits at her laptop running an AI algorithm she wrote.

The stark difference between the Moon's heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled scientists for ...

Most planets can exist for a long, long time, but they can't last forever. Hungry stars and violent planetary neighbors can completely destroy a world, while ...

The odds of an atmosphere forming around an Earth-like exoplanet are even slimmer than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) May 23, 2019 - Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris ...

Aside from the first trailer being launched at Star Wars Celebration, there's been no official footage or additional pictures released for The Rise of Skywalker until ...

BUTLER COUNTY, Pa., May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Borough of Mars, Pennsylvania, will host a free weekend-long Mars Exploration Celebration, May ...

NASA has established an independent Planetary Protection Review Board to review established guidelines for planetary protection and recommend any ...

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research ...

After a debate between Alan Stern and a former president of the IAU, an informal vote suggested that Pluto be reinstated as a planet.

When meteorites hit the moon, water is released from the moon's soil. That suggests the moon has water buried all across its surface.

THE Moon and Saturn meet in the heavens this week in the presence of the gas giant Jupiter – find out how you can see the two celestial bodies light up the ...

NASA's Mars InSight lander captured its first confirmed marsquake on April 6.

A new board game released to coincide with Earth Day places the world's fate in players' hands, enabling them to build and populate biomes in a race to ...

Rutgers scientists with the NASA-funded Enigma Project shared scientific research about the search for life in the universe with K-8 students.

A speculative fiction writer talks about planetary inspiration and summer reads.

Discover when, where and how to find your perfect boat ride, from megaships and expedition vessels to river cruises around the world.

The dwarf planet Haumea orbits the sun in the deep, dark reaches of the outer solar system. Astronomers spotted this object in 2004, and it helped usher in the ...

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Huge Mars dust storms like the one that killed NASA's Opportunity rover may have helped to blow some of the Red Planet's ancient water away for good, ...

Next week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, NASA's PDCO and other U.S. agencies and space science institutions, along with international partners, ...

Last October, astronomers announced that they had spotted evidence of a Neptune-size satellite orbiting the exoplanet Kepler-1625b. Six months later, the ...

Grab a spacesuit and a few months of provisions. We're taking you on a tour of the Interplanetary Parks *Service*.

On May 22, NASA is live streaming a virtual tour of some of the solar system's most bizarre storms. (Photo Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald ...

New work suggests that planets that are solid all the way through and have low masses may have the best chance of surviving the surge of tugs produced by ...

Astronomers using the combined power of two Hawaii telescopes have taken groundbreaking, sharp new images of a distant planetary system that likely ...

Planet Earth was buzzed by a rather sizeable space rock on Saturday. Known as asteroid 2019 JR1, our celestial visitor swung by for what astronomers refer to ...

THE doomsday planet Nibiru, or Planet X, will reverse the Earth's magnetic poles and ravage the planet beyond recognition when it passes in the near future, ...

While today Venus is a very inhospitable place with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, geological evidence, supported by computer model ...

Through an experiment designed to create a super-cold state of water, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron ...

Planetary researchers from NASA's Juno mission made the first detection beyond Earth of an internal magnetic field that changes over time -- a phenomenon ...

The Washington Carnegie Public Library's Youth Summer Reading Club will have babies through teens thinking more about the world around them. The theme ...

New analyses of the data used to find the first discovered exomoon are reaching conflicting results.

The heavens declare the glory of God, the vault of heaven proclaims his handiwork.” — Psalm 19.1 The words of the psalm come naturally to mind as one visits ...

'Unavoidable delays' have left people feeling frustrated at time taken to connect supply.

By Nathan Case, Lancaster University. Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our ...

A DOCUMENTARY filmmaker has supposedly discovered evidence that a man behind one of the most famous UFO photos has been in constant contact with ...

Sipping *fresh* coconut water while sunbathing on deserted Hikkaduwa beach, Alexi Konchayenko, a sports trainer from Ukraine, struck a stoical note.

Bee Wilson's “The Way We Eat Now” delves into the startling consequences of the globalization that has revolutionized our relationship to food.

Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos recently debuted a new lunar landing module, to be constructed by his space exploration company, Blue Origin.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted aluminum monoxide (AlO) molecules in the gas surrounding Orion ...

A wild, rugged, mountainous region of Slovakia dotted with plunging waterfalls and lakes and hiking trails has been named the top European destination of 2019 ...

By committing to cloud responsibly, organisations all over the globe can play their part in the much wider societal movement towards a greener, more ...

Smriti Irani In Smriti Irani's birth chart, her Yogakaraka planet Saturn is passing over natal Moon through 8th house.

NASA data has revealed the reason why the far side of the moon is riddled with heavy craters, space scientists have announced.

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Now the results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 are just a few hours left, in such a situation, the leader and the people are eagerly awaiting the election defeat ...

Three extrasolar comets have been discovered around the star Beta Pictoris, 63 light years away, by the University of Innsbruck. Analysis of data from the current ...

Researchers have discovered an aluminum-bearing molecule for the first time around a young star. The discovery provides a crucial chance to study the early ...

Outer Wilds has a Majora's Mask-like time loop mechanic, forcing you to Groundhog Day your way through its science fiction mystery.

The prestigious prize has been given to Caltech's Ed Stone, former director of JPL and the long-time project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest world outside ...

The space rock will miss Earth by 4 million miles. Next Sunday, a very imposing space rock will swing by to pay Earth a close visit. Dubbed asteroid 2019 JB1, ...

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the ...

Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, as two new studies offer support of its existence, even if NASA and space researchers have yet to find it.

Late last year, astronomers announced that they'd found a super-Earth around Barnard's star – one of the closest suns to our own. The discovery of a planet just ...

Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone ...

Despite being the very first planet candidate discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, Kepler-1658b had a rocky road to confirmation. It moved from planet ...

Three planets are orbiting two suns in the Kepler-47 system. Astronomers discovered the third planet, a Neptune-to-Saturn-size world lurking between two ...

Pluto has always been an oddball, but here's why it's no longer considered a planet.

Astronomers identify the most promising stars for TESS to search for planets just a bit larger than our own and that receive radiation from their star equivalent to ...

Astronomers have also identified hundreds of stars that could potentially support life.

Astronomers announced last week the discoveries of the first two potential planets detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new ...

The Sun will end its life as a dense, smoldering object called a white dwarf. A new study reports the discovery of one of the first small and intact planetary ...

The number of planets detected around other stars - or exoplanets - is set to hit the 4000 mark.

ASTRONOMERS scanning the skies for proof of the mysterious Planet Nine might be looking in vain as something else entirely could be hiding out there in the ...

An 18-year-old high school senior has won a $250000 prize for calculating the potential for finding more planets outside our solar system using data from ...

THE mysterious Planet Nine's gravitational pull could have a bizarre effect on the entire solar system if proven to exist, an astronomer has spectacularly claimed.

Planets between the size of Neptune and Saturn shouldn't be rare after all, scientists realize, thanks to a trick of magnification.

Deep in the heart of alien worlds, crystals form under pressures up to 40 million times more intense than the atmospheric pressure on Earth, and as much as 10 ...

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Since astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet in 1995, they've gone on to uncover almost 3,900 distant worlds, with thousands still awaiting analysis.

There has been much speculation about the existence of Planet Nine and its impact on distant objects in the solar system. But a new study suggests that some of ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. — Interstellar travel may be a thing of the future, but how will people communicate if it actually happens? Southern Illinois University ...