Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

Earth Day 2025, under the theme of “Our Power, Our Planet,” invites the world to support renewable energy for a more ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

A mere 48 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus is an exoplanet that has been defying scientists attempts to understand it.

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...