In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at what they ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery—for the first time, scientists have directly observed two alien planets ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

the dramatic warming of the planet that marks the human-fueled climate crisis is happening at breakneck speed compared with these ancient processes that took millions of years. Glacier movement, or ...

Seven planets will line up for a rare "planetary parade" today (Feb. 28) and you can watch it live online, beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET (1700 GMT).

This means all the water on our planet must have originated from extraterrestrial sources. Studies of ancient terrestrial rocks suggest liquid water existed on Earth as early as 100 million years ...