A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Yewande Oluwole, 5, and her sister Jadesola, 3, love astronomy and can name every planet—even the dwarf planets. But peering ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

In a tribute on its website, the Jane Goodall Institute wrote, “Jane was passionate about wildlife from early childhood, and ...

In our view, major changes take millions of years, but in the universe, they happen much faster. Planet formation, for example, may seem slow to us, but it unfolds surprisingly quickly on a cosmic ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Space Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses Planet Earth 'Anti-aging' magic mushrooms and record-breaking ...

Milwaukee is facing a significant reading crisis affecting the majority of its students. Milwaukee education and civic leaders have formed a new coalition to unite various school sectors on this issue ...

Childhood cancer survivors are living longer, but new research shows that they face significantly higher mortality rates and rates of secondary cancers, especially if they received radiation or harbor ...

For decades, molecular glues have been stumbled upon rather than designed. A new scientific approach is now changing that – expanding what is considered druggable. Drug discovery has long faced the ...