What does it take to pursue a cosmic bullet? This week, scientists are on the case as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its ...

They found that 98% of the thousands of sub-Neptunes they modeled, which are the most common type of exoplanet found so far, ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

A rare interstellar comet will sweep past Earth this week at a safe distance, giving scientists a brief chance to study ...

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

A new study suggests that Uranus and Neptune may not be ice-rich planets after all. Researchers from the University of Zurich propose that these distant worlds could be dominated by rock, challenging ...

This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise ...

On December 19, this interstellar visitor with its peculiar composition offers a glimpse into the makeup of celestial bodies ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...