In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

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

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

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

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

SCROLLING THROUGH the feed on Sora, a new video app from chatbot developer OpenAI, is a hallucinatory experience. A woman in a judo jacket bows to an elephant before flipping it over her shoulder. A ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Scientists have observed a “rogue planet” that is growing at an alarming rate as it gobbles up six billion tons of gas and dust every second, a new paper revealed. The newly studied object, formally ...

I just wanted kids to understand why messages from advertising or from rumors and gossip or from other people's testimonials and opinions, or even things that you see in entertainment are so easy to ...

Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet. The rogue planet, which ...

This artist’s animation shows Cha 1107-7626. Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star. The planet is eating up ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...