The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is baffling scientists with its peculiar behaviour, emitting strange jets and changing ...

Researchers have discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets in our Milky Way. Of these, the sub-Neptune class, which are smaller ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.

Google envisions putting a legion of satellites into a special kind of orbit that rides along the day-night terminator, where ...

The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

The CEO of the largest satellite company in the world just proposed a bold—and totally misguided—solution to the climate ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an outgoing path — but it’s not leaving our cosmic ...

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a ...

Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...