Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... formation compares to that of a star or brown dwarf, the term given to large gaseous planets that ...
For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...
A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...
The toy company is celebrating the 60th anniversary ... A pastel-colored illustration of a 1950s-style sci-fi rocket soaring under a ringed planet replaces the solid orange that backed the 1965 ...
Of course, some fear that we will hit the grey goo scenario where a self-replicating nanobot will simply eat the entire planet and everything on it, including us. In response, researchers say this ...