Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

NASA chief Jared Issacman appears to be among those who support Pluto being reclassified as a planet. Could President Trump sign an executive order?

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known ...

Because contemplating the vast, never-ending universe now feels infinitely more manageable than reading another update about ...

Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action via executive order.

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new type of planet beyond our solar system, according to new research. The exoplanet, named ...