Astronomers have discovered a strange new type of exoplanet known as a Hycean world—an ocean-covered planet with a thick ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was discovered. They celebrate scientific discovery, history and our solar system’s ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

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Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

Wild Kingdom host Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explains why — in a time of dire headlines — young conservationists and her own daughters make her hopeful about the future.

A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...

Beginning April 1, 2026, guests at the Greensboro Science Center (GSC) can step into the lush, layered world of a tropical rainforest with "Rainforest Adventure", a fully interactive traveling maze ...