planetary science

A European satellite has spotted an unbelievably realistic angelic figure—complete with wings, halo, and heart—in…

It looks like coffee beans in a grinder, but it’s actually bits of dust and pebbles scooped up from the surface of…

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been hard at work over the past several months at a site thought to contain ancient…

Free-floating planets are not bound to any star, having been dumped from their original home systems. New research…

A gigantic pool of magma emerged beneath Earth’s surface following the impact event that wiped out all non-avian…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appears to be leaking tiny bits of an asteroid named Bennu, following a successful…

NASA promised some “exciting” news about the Moon today, and we’re pleased to report the space agency has delivered.…

A bombshell study from last month made the extraordinary claim of finding a type of molecule on Venus associated…

Big news, everyone: NASA says it will reveal “an exciting new discovery about the Moon” on Monday. Any guesses as to…

Images captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx show the spacecraft’s sample head touching the surface of asteroid Bennu, which…

Update: OSIRIS-REx made contact with the surface on schedule, executed the sample-collection procedure, and fired…

The newly deployed CHEOPS space telescope has completed its first observations of an exoplanet, uncovering some…

Two years ago, a team of Italian scientists claimed to have discovered a subglacial lake near the Martian south…

The unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for…

Our minds were blown yesterday as a team of researchers reported on the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of…

Liquid water is typically associated with planet Earth, but our solar system hosts surprisingly large volumes of the…

A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an…

Scientists are attributing the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, to a…

New ultraviolet observations of the Red Planet highlight complex circulation patterns in the Martian atmosphere,…

Lightning and hailstones exist on Jupiter, but they’re of a very different sort than the ones we’re familiar with on…