Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy fun space animations that entertain and educate about the solar system and the ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

At magnitude 9.5, the Ghost’s Goblet is visible in binoculars and even more striking through a telescope, where its triangular core appears as the “cup” of a ghostly goblet. Astronomy contributor ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system that dances to a cosmic rhythm. Located 105 light-years away in the ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...