Scientists find the largest group of rogue planets yet
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a...
Life may make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds, shows study
It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor.
With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough...
Astronomers detect signature of magnetic field on an exoplanet
Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system.
Earth's magnetic field acts as a...
Why comets’ heads can be green, but never their tails
Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our way: 4.6-billion-year-old leftovers from...
NASA’s solar probe reveals clues to one of the sun’s greatest mysteries
Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe bolster theories about one of the sun’s greatest mysteries: why its outer atmosphere is hotter than its fiery...
Are black holes and dark matter the one and the same?
Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive...
Scientists uncover Earth’s outer solar system ancestry
Krypton from the Earth’s mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet...
NASA’s spacecraft touches the Sun for the first time!
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere –...
Scientists find the signal source in galaxy far far away
Super-bright stellar explosion is likely a dying star giving birth to a black hole or neutron star.
In June of 2018, telescopes around the world...
Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid
With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life in the solar system...