The planet Mercury is the smallest member of our solar system’s eight planets. However, its small size (4,880 kilometres in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a turbulent world 20 light-years away has a surprisingly orderly weather ...

A research team has discovered rings, grooves, and cavities in extremely compact disks surrounding young stars.

Planet Nine? Jupiter might be the goon of all planets. Its sheer size and gravitational pull likely once threw a planet out of the solar system. Where did it go? It might be the same planet scientists ...

Nasa engineers have tested whether an engineering model of the DAVINCI Venus descent probe can protect its scientific instruments from the extreme heat it will encounter while travelling through the ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be visible in a planet alignment, November 2026, with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)-led team has developed an improved model for predicting solar events that incorporates activity on the far side of the sun. The team studied near-simultaneous ...

Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable.

The fate of our solar system is written in the stars—well, one star to be precise: the sun. Estimates of what the end will ...

[astro-ph.EP] Gaia will soon provide a census of cold giant planets. However, an astrometric signal contains the superimposed reflex motion of all companions, so planetary signals cannot be treated ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of fiery colors are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond th ...

The Electricity Authority of Vietnam and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet have convened a task force meeting to advance their energy transition cooperation. Photo: Global Energy ...