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

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws Rory McIlroy blasts ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

It’s something we’ve seen play out many times in Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and more, though few games let ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...