A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The weak spot, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, was identified in the 19th century and expanded in recent years.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

After 70 years of appearances in movies, shows, comics, and games, Godzilla has some distinctly powerful versions, and these ...

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have ...

For Willie Shubert, journalism is a kind of cartography. “I studied geography,” he says. Mapmaking taught him how to see the ...

An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have spotted ...

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm.

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...