Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral ...

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The earth and the heavens are connected to each other. The light and the heat, the blessings and the mercy in form of rain for instance, come down from the skies. According to the consensus of ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

Frogs are descendants of some of the first vertebrates to leave the water, and their survival story stretches back hundreds of millions of years. Built around explosive jumps, stealth, and a ...