Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

The infinity of the universe hides facts such as the one that has been uncovered in recent days. An object 13 times the size of the planet Jupiter is wandering uncontrollably throu ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

The object, with a mass of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years ... in carbon-based molecule amounts such as methane and carbon monoxide.

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

It has about 13 times the mass of our Jupiter and could therefore also be ... it was noticed that the occurrence of molecules such as methane or carbon dioxide differs depending on the region ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

An artist’s conception of the exoplanet K2-33b, a 10 Myr Jupiter-sized planet, transiting in front of its active host star. This system is comparable to those which will be observed by the KRONOS ...

The House on Wednesday voted to overturn a Biden-era rule implementing a program that charges oil and gas companies for excess methane emissions. The vote was 220-206-1. Democratic Reps.

The Senate voted Thursday to repeal a new US fee on climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas producers, sending the measure to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature.

SB 726 proposes stricter methane monitoring and reporting requirements for landfills. The bill was introduced in response to methane leaks at Coffin Butte Landfill. Opponents argue alternative ...