Deep space has just delivered a cosmic riddle that refuses to fit any familiar category. Astronomers using some of the most ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Scientists tracked active solar region NOAA 13664 for 94 days, showing how persistent magnetic complexity drives flares and ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...

A new 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA-supported Gemini North telescope revealed a 'chemical scream' as the comet's temperature ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., data centers burn through more than 4% of total annual energy consumption, says ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...