Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

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

A new machine learning model has predicted that ... just six light-years from the solar system, Barnard’s Star is now confirmed to host four planets about 20-30% of the mass of Earth that ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

A new study shows how the Sun and Earth's atmosphere destroy life-bearing meteoroids before they reach the planet.

Exoplanets have a remarkable diversity of planetary types, including a class known as ultrahot Jupiters. The similarity to Jupiter in the Solar System is ... circulation models 1 of planetary ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically ...

Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more intense than anything on Earth. Its polar auroras shine when charged particles ...

This distant orbathing red dwarf star, at about 47 light-years distance from Earth, presents unique planetary attributes different from all known solar system planets ... serves both existing ...

According to the Kardashev scale, the civilizations are classified into three types: 1) Type I civilization: A civilization that can harness and use all the energy available on its planet. On a ...