By 2024, 87 percent of scientists and 86.6 percent of astrobiologists, by one measure, believed in the likelihood of life in ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests.

Pebbles covered in water ice drift inward from colder outer regions, and the increase in temperature causes the ice to ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming long-held theories about how young planets shape their star systems.

A spacecraft which launched in 2023 with Irish input, is doing a gravity-assisted flyby of the planet Venus tomorrow on its way to explore if the conditions for life exist on Jupiter’s moons.

In the midst of the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, located some 3,400 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Scorpius, astronomers have found compelling evidence of dust crystallizing as ...

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars like the Sun die, they go through a phase of rapid expansion called the Red ...

How is the extension of PM SVANidhi for street vendors relevant to the UPSC exam? What is the significance of topics such as brown dwarfs, cloudbursts, and the H-1B visa program for both the ...

Taken 36 years ago on August 28, 1989 this iconic image marked the final visual record sent back by Voyager 2 before its optical cameras were permanently shut off. Nasa shared the image to mark the ...