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 ...

Bay 12's Tarn Adams discusses why fantasy dwarves are such a "fortuitous" archetype for Dwarf Fortress, and why Elves don't ...

At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, after the three interconnected stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

The IAU also estimates that there could be "more than 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which could have moons. "Just like the giant planet satellites ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on an ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf ... The planets are so small that they are more analogous to Mars, according to Basant. “When compared ...

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 ...

NASA's Artemis 2 crew is seeking an original idea for their zero-g indicator (ZGI), a stuffed toy or doll that will be suspended from a tether in their Orion spacecraft to signal when they enter ...