ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

A spacecraft en route to the frozen moons of Jupiter has taken a very close look at Earth, and found that our homeworld is, ...

It is barely visible with the unaided eye under ideal viewing conditions ... “In future studies, our work may serve to investigate the existence of Earth-mass planets and also habitable exomoons ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don't have a day and night cycle. It's hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...

A tidally locked planet may seem exotic, but most potentially habitable planets are probably like this. Our closest planetary neighbour, Proxima Centauri b (located in the Alpha Centauri system ...

challenge current models of planet formation, indicating they might form directly from interstellar gas clouds, akin to stars, rather than around a parent star. The findings, accepted for ...

Credit: NASA NASA’s recent mission has unveiled Earth’s ambipolar electric field, crucial for understanding atmospheric dynamics and exploring other habitable worlds ... would otherwise reach and may ...

may be an "Eyeball" planet with an iris-like ocean surrounded by a sea of solid ice. It is likely to be habitable. Scientists first thought the planet, called LHS-1140b, was a mini-Neptune spinning a ...

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies. We are now coming down the home stretch regarding ...

The Batagay crater, sometimes referred to as Batagaika or as the "gateway to hell," is representative of a much larger, often invisible problem that affects the entire planet. The Arctic is ...

It even has a dusty disk around it, indicating it might host its own moons and planets. Looking at these rogue planets, astronomers believe that similar cosmic processes might be responsible for star ...

A comet heading towards our planet might be visible to the naked eye in the next few months. The comet, named Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), was first discovered in early 2023, and has been ...