The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface blends into a uniform dullness.

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the ...

A collection of quick thoughts on the many, many PC games I saw and played at Gamescom (but never managed to preview in full).

NASA’s Juno captures swirling turbulence in Jupiter’s northern latitudes, revealing dynamic belts, zones and complex high-speed atmospheric winds.

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faint amounts of methane ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life. (At least, life as we know it.) But assessing habitability is a difficult ...

A respected Harvard astrophysicist believes one of the most famous signals ever sent to Earth could have been sent by the object rapidly approaching our planet.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Scientists have proposed that Venus’ mysterious crown-shaped features, known as coronae, form when a rigid layer in the mantle traps heat, creating slow-moving currents that deform the surface.