A mysterious celestial body speeding through the solar system and shedding metals was captured in July by the Very Large ...

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

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Strange New Worlds has made numerous retcons and changes to Star Trek canon, from Captain Pike, to Kirk, to the Gorn, and ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, […] ...

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

Something strange is stirring in Saturn’s skies. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something entirely new in Saturn’s atmosphere: a string of dark, bead-like features high ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

Strange blobs found inside Mars by Nasa’s InSight lander may be remnants of the ancient “embryo” that eventually developed into the planet we see today, according to a new study. The findings, ...

The Kuiper Belt is home to rocky, icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0 It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the ...