Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms. The way we learn the order of the planets is the classroom version of ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Typically astronomers find planets of similar ages to the ones in our solar system, but that’s starting to change. In a study published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers reveal ...

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the ancient solar system looked like.

Is Tau Ceti a real star? Is there a rocky exoplanet called Erid? How long can astronauts stay in space? Are there microbes on ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...