The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by...
UNLV researchers have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures. Solid water, or...
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these...
A team of scientists found NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of...
Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which...
The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been...
When the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular oxygen bursting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) in 2015, it puzzled...
Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western...
The solar system has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class that contains...
A California startup is joining much bigger players in the drive to explore settlement on the moon, as plans by...
We do not yet know whether the sun-like stars closest to us, the α Centauri A/B binary, harbor an Earth-like...
In the 21st century, planetary scientists have become increasingly aware that subsurface oceans consisting of liquid water exist within objects...
