With China's advancing deep space exploration capabilities and critical progress in space-based nuclear power technology, the nation is basically ready to conduct orbital and close-in missions to ice ...

For decades, Uranus has held the title of the coldest planet in the solar system, with atmospheric temperatures plunging to ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from ...

Astronomers have found key organic molecules in a young star’s disk, V883 Orionis, suggesting that the origin of life in deep ...

Uranus is heating up from the inside. Uranus was always seen as a tilted, distant, and kind of boring world. Scientists used ...

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

A mysterious object the size of Manhattan is blazing through our solar system, and its origins remain a puzzle to the world's ...