Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

However, the mechanism that has been thought to explain how that stardust disperses has now been shown to be flawed, and the team that made the discovery doesn’t have a coherent alternative to offer ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...