ON October 6, 1995, an astronomical turning point occurred: the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. This world, named 51 Pegasi...

Here's what it says about the future of our own solar system. A dead star core about 145 light-years away in space is doing anything but resting in...

A newly discovered planet sits in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are right for liquid water if the atmosphere is appropriate....

As the worlds of the Solar System go, Uranus is among the weirdest. Its peculiar properties, from internal heating to its crooked magnetic fields,...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world so strange it seems to break nearly every known rule of planetary science. The planet, named TOI-4507b,...

Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our...

Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our...

International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room...

International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room...

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