There isn't a single species on the planet that consumes more alcohol than humans, but there are plenty of animals that have ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

"We found out that both Uranus and Neptune have their outer shells made mostly of rocks (and hydrogen and helium gas)," study ...

Seven years into its mission, NASA’s TESS satellite has already confirmed roughly 700 exoplanets. That sounds like a lot. But the telescope watches over 2 million stars, and most signals flagged as ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

With evidence increasingly showing that volcanism is active on the surface of Venus today, a team of geologists have shown ...

Venus is the most hostile planet in the solar system. Temperatures reach 460°C, the pressure can crush spacecraft, and the atmosphere is filled with toxic acid clouds. Nothing survives there — yet ...

A nearby Earth-sized planet offers a rare chance to study how atmospheres survive or disappear on rocky worlds.