ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

A spacecraft en route to the frozen moons of Jupiter has taken a very close look at Earth, and found that our homeworld is, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers recently identified a smiley-face-shaped structure on Mars that may offer new ...

It is barely visible with the unaided eye under ideal viewing conditions ... “In future studies, our work may serve to investigate the existence of Earth-mass planets and also habitable exomoons ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...

A tidally locked planet may seem exotic, but most potentially habitable planets are probably like this. Our closest planetary neighbour, Proxima Centauri b (located in the Alpha Centauri system ...

challenge current models of planet formation, indicating they might form directly from interstellar gas clouds, akin to stars, rather than around a parent star. The findings, accepted for ...

Credit: NASA NASA’s recent mission has unveiled Earth’s ambipolar electric field, crucial for understanding atmospheric dynamics and exploring other habitable worlds ... would otherwise reach and may ...

may be an "Eyeball" planet with an iris-like ocean surrounded by a sea of solid ice. It is likely to be habitable. Scientists first thought the planet, called LHS-1140b, was a mini-Neptune spinning a ...

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies. We are now coming down the home stretch regarding ...

The Batagay crater, sometimes referred to as Batagaika or as the "gateway to hell," is representative of a much larger, often invisible problem that affects the entire planet. The Arctic is ...