When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

The new radio portrait of the Milky Way is the most sensitive, widest-area map at these low frequencies to date. It will ...

When an investment does as well as or better than you hoped it would, what do you do next? That’s the dilemma for gold investors, who have seen prices for the precious metal settle at record highs ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was ...

Astronomers have caught a starless rogue planet, named Cha 1107-7626, growing faster than any planet ever seen or imagined to be possible. The free-floating world is swallowing gas and dust at roughly ...

Kimmel is keeping the results of a new poll in perspective: “At this point, finding a toenail in your salad has a seven-point lead over Donald Trump.” By Trish Bendix Welcome to Late Night Roundup, a ...

USA Rare Earth offers trading opportunities but is not a long-term hold due to likely future market oversupply. USAR's magnet manufacturing and rare earth separation businesses are sensible but do not ...