A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, and this one is very intriguing.

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...