A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more ...

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

As we call time on the first quarter of the 21st century, I thought it might be a good opportunity to look back at some of ...

We asked the most respected names in the industry to tell us about the best timepieces they put on their wrists in 2025.

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...