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 ...

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

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 ...

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

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...