One of the world’s most powerful telescopes has peered inside Uranus to map its version of the northern lights in 3D for the ...

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

At any given moment, 89,000 terawatts of raw solar power is slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a mind-boggling amount of energy. But right now, our best technologies are essentially trying to ...

A handful of anime series made a huge splash with fans when they first debuted, but these once-popular shows have been all but forgotten in 2026.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The U.S. has developed a critical minerals price floor system that it’s pitching to allies as the Trump administration and more than 50 countries look to reduce dependence on China for the resources ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

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