Scientists think a planet larger than Earth lurks in the far reaches of the solar system. Now a new telescope could confirm their belief and change solar system science
The second-most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is scheduled to launch in the coming weeks, the agency’s latest effort to search for life on the Red Planet.
Perched on top of a remote, wind-swept hill in rural mid-Wales sits a series of structures designed to protect us against “one of the most significant risks to human civilisation”.
Patrick Nelson did not know exactly what he was looking at, but he knew it was special.
The Borexino experiment detected particles from our star’s second-most important fusion process
A duo of U.S. planetary scientists has calculated that water in the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay.
It will be called Dimorphos, and is approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee made the unusual request to ask the Pentagon for a detailed, unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena that some believe may not be of this world.
Up to three planets – potentially rocky like Earth – have been spotted around a star located relatively near our solar system – a planetary system offering astronomers intriguing possibilities in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
