Many Americans have stopped trusting establishment media, and conspiracy-minded content creators are offering them a dark ...

Extremists in both major U.S. political parties, MAGA Republicans and uncompromising Democrats, are widening the chasm between Americans to the detriment of the nation.

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

A mysterious comet flying through our solar system may be doing more than just passing by—it could help explain how giant planets like Jupiter are born. At a major planetary science conference in ...

Planets are not living organisms and, like molecules, do not have to be biological. But at least one is deeply biological in ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

Long had the scientific community searched space for signs of a newly formed planet, and it has now captured one.

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...