TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...

NASA’s InSight reveals Mars’ mantle holds preserved fragments from its violent birth, offering a rare record of rocky planet formation.

The search for a new music director began in the orchestra pit before the job announcement went public. "We asked our ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

Mars isn’t the neatly layered world we once imagined — its mantle is filled with ancient, jagged fragments left over from colossal impacts billions of years ago. Seismic data from NASA’s InSight ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

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