Futuristic sun-reflecting technology could be effective at cooling the planet, says the United Kingdom’s top science academy ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Cosmic Rhapsody takes complex science – astrophysics, chemistry, the search for new worlds – and turns it into something ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

As the world approaches critical tipping points, a comprehensive global scientific report shows that resilience—the ability ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is suspected to be causing unusua ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

The Senate's report supports Space.com's findings, stating, "as early as June 2025, NASA began 'implementing immediately' ...