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A new view of the solar system’s early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials — the precursors of space rocks and ultimately planets — both formed...

A NASA probe is about to get the first up-close look at a potentially habitable alien world. In March 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive in orbit around the dwarf...

Astronomers have caught the first views of auroras on the planet Uranus from a telescope near Earth, revealing tantalizing views of the tilted giant planet’s hard-to-catch light shows. The Uranus...

If you’re fed up with the Earth’s people, pandemic and politics, you might be pleased to know there’s a newly discovered, untouched world out there that might be perfect for...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Autodesk, a software company, have engaged in a multiyear collaborative research project to investigate new approaches for building interplanetary landers. The concept lander, perhaps...

NASA’s prolific Kepler space observatory, which has found signs of thousands of alien planets, will keep hunting strange new worlds for at least four more years, the space agency announced...

There’s a «blue marble» alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color in the atmosphere likely comes...

The nearest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri, may actually be host to two planets, including a «Super-Earth,» according to a new study. The research, published in Science Advances, notes...

Across the Milky Way lies a violent world suffering through the first «superstorm» ever spotted on an alien planet. Poisonous carbon monoxide gas is streaming at enormous speeds from the...

A massive alien planet that may have been ripped into Earth-size chunks by its dying parent star is offering a unique glimpse into the evolution of other worlds and their...