A new planet has been spotted forming around a distant star, carving gaps and spiral arms in its disk, offering astronomers a ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

The mismatch hints at unseen dust streams and a surprisingly quiet magnetosphere around the tipped-over planet. Working with NASA’s Hubble ... the moons or interacts in ways that leave little surface ...

This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could collide with the Moon in 2032 – and NASA just upped its impact odds again ...

A picture taken recently by a Japanese company’s spacecraft shows how your interpretation of objective reality can be tested ...

The image showed a visibly bumpy nail surface, prompting thousands to weigh in with personal anecdotes, amateur diagnoses, and expert theories. "My thumbnail grows bumpy. The bumps then grows out ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured away.

When they breathe at the surface they roll forward quickly ... vaquita’s extinct relatives—skulls with odd fissures and bumps, longer beaks, strange jaws—I can see that porpoises of the ...