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

The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136.

Using JWST, astronomers uncovered auroras, exotic clouds, and storms on a blazing rogue planet. Brilliant aurora-like ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Scientists have even discovered worlds with the same density as Styrofoam, and others where it rains gemstones thanks to ...