Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global ...

One popular explanation for Jupiter's fuzzy core involved a catastrophic collision early in the planet's history. Scientists ...

Astronomers may have demoted Pluto from full-fledged planet to dwarf status, but evidence suggests the solar system may still ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Dr. Adomas Valantinas, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, explained to Salon that the research ...

Europlanet has announced the winners of its inaugural Career Medals, which are designed to honour outstanding contributions ...

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you're an interplanetary ...