"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making it more than twice as far as Pluto. With a highly elongated orbit ...

Neptune Fest 2025 is underway on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. While the weather hasn’t fully cooperated, that hasn’t stopped folks from coming out and enjoying themselves.

In the eastern Atlantic, the center of post-tropical cyclone Gabrielle moved away from the Azores. A hurricane warning for ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.