Saturn has pulled decisively ahead in the solar system’s quiet “moon race,” with astronomers now tallying a staggering 274 natural satellites circling the ringed giant. The new count, driven by the ...

There’s an endless amount of curious and fascinating knowledge out there in the world, and discovering it is part of what ...

The Saturn V did not cruise to the Moon at a single speed, it accelerated through distinct phases, briefly peaking at a ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be seeding the worlds of this solar system with the early stages of life, new ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

Taking high-resolution pictures of stars in space has been considered a serious struggle for decades, and a new discovery was ...