Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Planet Labs leverages AI for actionable analytics and has a $734M backlog with defense revenue growth and a 27x sales ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...

With often secret civilisations beneath our feet ants have sophisticated social lives and even practiced agriculture millions ...

Hawaiʻi is leading the way in renewable energy innovation, with the help of organizations like Blue Planet Alliance, and is ...