Billions of starless planets haunt dark cloud cradles, shows study
In Lovecraftian horror, the Universe is filled with “dark planets” ungraced by the light of a host star.
New research shows that reality might be...
Fiery dragon’s breath may scorch young planets
Like a dragon of legend, the star EK Draconis has belched out a stream of flaming gas.
This is the first time such a supermassive...
Scientists find one more common ground between earth and Mars
Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of...
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...