The discovery strengthens the case for a new mission to orbit and land on Enceladus and search for evidence of life.

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

A research group in Japan has suggested that ash released from volcanic eruptions on Nishinoshima Island—part of Japan's Ogasawara Islands—led to a temporary surge in phytoplankton levels in the ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate ...

A baby world just drifting through space without a star to call home has been caught in a record-smashing feeding frenzy.

A young rogue planet 620 light-years from Earth has baffled scientists as it puts on a record-breaking 'growth spurt'.

A major international study has identified Antarctic sea ice as a critical predictor of how much heat Earth’s oceans will ...

Using the Open Exoplanet Catalog and NASA’s Eye on Exoplanets website provides new way to study Kepler’s and Newton’s laws ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

Newly found protoplanet WISPIT 2b, about 5 times size of Jupiter and only 5M years old, spotted in gap of surrounding disk - ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...