When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a world far more complex than scientists ever expected. Towering water-ice mountains, vast nitrogen glaciers, and a mysterious ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a potentially habitable exoplanet GJ 887 d near one of the stars closest to the ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

Why does Pluto's orbit take so long? Pluto's orbit is not like those of the eight major planets, which are relatively circular. Instead, it is highly elliptical and tilted. At tim ...

Astrological drama alert!

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...