Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in ...

Scientists are almost sure that there is a ninth planet. But a study by Japanese astronomers hints that this might not be true. A new cosmic body called a sednoid has been discovered near the Kuiper ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment ...

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, and this one is very intriguing.