Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

In response to recent world and local events, I have decided I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. I’m simply over it.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

The world endured three of its top-20 costliest disasters on record in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and a record three ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Detection of electromagnetic fluctuations that generate ‘killer electrons’ challenges scientific ideas about radiation in our ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

For the first time, researchers have found oceans help cool global temperatures more than anyone previously thought. Here's ...