Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

In 2024, scientists made headlines when they found evidence of copious amounts of water inside a layer of the Martian crust.

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...

This Thursday night, for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years, our planet's faithful companion is going to get fancy ...

The shape of a planet’s orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

It’s been a few years since FX announced plans to collaborate with Fargo‘s Noah Hawley on an Alien television series, but as we look ahead to the future, the project’s arrival is closer than ...