When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa provided evidence in a study, published in The Planetary Science ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

Today, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...

U.S. stocks stormed to records as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the ...

Markets worldwide have been fixated on what the election will mean for U.S. economic, monetary and trade policy, as well as ...