We classified Pluto before really understanding it—just like we reduce people to job titles or put names on relationships ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

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But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

NASA officials warn that around 15,000 'city-killer' asteroids remain undiscovered, many lurking in a stubborn observational blind spot near the sun.

Scientists continue to look for signs of alien life on Mars, but this scientist truly popularized the idea, claiming to find ...

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...

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Al-Ittihad have identified Real Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga as their top target to replace N'Golo Kante following his ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

When most people think of enormous animals, their mind probably jumps to giraffes or a grizzly bear. But the largest animals on Earth span a wide range of categories. Mammals comprise over 6,000 ...