The debate over Pluto’s planetary status has been ongoing since its reclassification as a “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

One popular explanation for Jupiter's fuzzy core involved a catastrophic collision early in the planet's history. Scientists ...

People Comprising the Outer Planets Alliance Unlike Earth and Mars in the universe of The Expanse, no government entity manages those who live in the asteroid belt (known as Belters) and beyond ...

Using computer models of the four outer planets, the team carried out 50,000 simulations of such flybys, each over 20 million years, while altering certain parameters of each visitor, including ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

NASA calls this the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program, and it lets planetary scientists and astronomers on Earth see what’s changed and what hasn’t in something like a cosmic weather ...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are released. This month ...

But so far, the hunt for Planet 9 has come up empty. Scholtz said the new primordial black hole theory could open up new ways to hunt for the mysterious object that lurks in the outer solar system ...

Not only can the Universe turn stars back into planets, but we’ve found multiple examples of them. The next questions are how low in mass they can go, and just how many of them are out there.