For centuries since the Sun was declared the center of the solar system in the 16th century, society held the belief that any object orbiting the bright star would be considered a planet. From Mercury ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, may have been even more instrumental to the system’s evolution than we thought, forming ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

You've probably heard of the dark web, but what's actually on it? These 5 tips can help you explore the dark web using Tails, Tor, and a VPN, assuming you actually want to go see.

For an animal smaller than a paper clip, the first journey of a newborn dunnart is astonishing. Moments after birth, each baby—no heavier than a grain of rice—must crawl across its mother’s fur to ...