Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

Rather than flowing magma, geological shifts on icy moons are produced by melting ice. The ice shells coating these moons wax ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

YouTuber "The 5439 Workshop" has built a solar system coffee table with a miniature, mechanically-exploding star system.

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, and their onboard systems are functioning normally ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...