Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

Platforms that provide insights, such as Kraken’s BTC to USD rate, show how crypto’s traceability could soon help users evaluate their carbon footprint alongside their financial activity.

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth&rsquo ...

New Juno data shows Jupiter is smaller and flatter than thought, forcing scientists to update models of the gas giant.

Point Galaxy is an outer space riff on Point Salad, twisting that board game's score-focused play without overcomplicating it ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), astronomers have captured snapshots representing the chaotic "teenage years" of ...

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two planetary pile-ups in the same turbulent star system — providing potential insights into how planets form 1. Observations from the early 2000s indicated that ...