Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the east-northeastern horizon shortly before midnight local ...

I/ATLAS anomalies and enormous kinetic energy update highlights seven unusual features of the interstellar object studied by Prof. Avi Loeb. The objects size, composition and trajectory suggest ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later. Measuring an estimated 3.3 to 9.8 ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers discovered a free-floating rogue planet with a mass 10 times heavier than Jupiter, and it's growing at an unprecedented rate. The rogue planet, named as such because it ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

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

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...