TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

This week, the world’s largest dinosaur tracksite is setting many world records with at least 16,600 footprints, signs of the ...

The animal history documentary series Prehistoric Planet returns today on Apple TV with a new Ice Age installment. If you aren’t a subscriber, now is a great time with a 50% off Black Friday deal ...

Astronomers have made a historic breakthrough by detecting a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star located over 130 light-years away. The violent eruption, which is thousands of times more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new chapter in planetary science, giving astronomers the ability to observe JWST exoplanets with a level of detail never before possible. Launched as ...

Nigerian Dwarf goats are animals with tons of personality, and there’s little that they do that isn’t funny to onlookers. Hannah from @kidsonkerth has kept TikTok rolling recently with hilarious goat ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...