Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

Kepler-56 is a red giant star slightly bigger than our Sun and with two planets around it. But it has a strange spin as its outer layer is moving faster and is also misaligned with its interior. A ...

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Fulfilling further Super Mario Brothers dreams, Nintendo and Illumination just launched the trailer for next year’s animated spectacle "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie." Due in April of 2026, this ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning distant exoplanets from anonymous dots of light into worlds with weather, chemistry ...

Latest US Space News and Discoveries MAVEN Mission Launched to Mars. It was on November 18, 2013, that NASA sent the MAVEN ...

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...