Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a balloon explore the atmosphere of Venus, and we closely watched the ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Venus sextile Uranus brings unexpected enlightenment ... The change-maker planet has been transiting this Earth sign since 2018 and has since sparked a revolution in the realm of security ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held ... "How would that affect the inner planets, so Venus, Earth, and Mars, specifically?" The study looked at how a super-Earth would affect ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

Enaiposha is a hazy planet orbiting a red dwarf star around 47 light-years away from Earth. It was initially thought to be a mini-Neptune, but recent data gathered with the James Webb Space Telescope ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...