This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.

For centuries, humans have dreamed about finding a new home among the stars. Earth is the only planet we know that supports ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form.

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system ...

For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system. But things might be a lot more complicated than we previously thought, according to a new study.

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated. More advanced models of the solar ...

Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere The evidence is mounting: this ...