Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor geomagnetic activity on Jan. 31. and Feb. 1. Keep up with current northern ...

Over the next few years, climate researchers from Germany aim to achieve a breakthrough in the radiative properties of clouds by describing the corresponding processes not just one-dimensionally, as ...

An international research team led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has developed a 3D/2D perovskite solar cell based on a meta-amidinopyridine ...

It is believed that the planet, named HD 20794 d, is at just the right distance from its star to sustain water on its surface ...

Dec. 6, 2024 — A new study shows the benefits of coordinating the siting of solar farms, wind farms, and storage systems, taking into account local and temporal variations in wind, sunlight ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make ... four light-years from Earth. This story appears in the ...