Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

For the first time, Russellville's Cole R-1 Elementary School has a gifted education program. The district has desired a ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS has arrived in the inner solar system behaving as if the usual rules of comet physics were optional. Instead ...

Stand on solid ground and it feels obvious that “down” points toward the center of the planet and “up” leads to the sky. Yet ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...