It's easy to think that Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system because it is the farthest from the Sun. Astronomers have been puzzled for years by the fact that Uranus is the coldest planet ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

A rocky planet in the Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere, raising the possibility that life could exist on its surface, according to experts. TRAPPIST-1e, a planet belonging to a collection of ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's conception of Quaoar and its small moon Weywot. Not pictured are the dwarf planet's ...

Chobani is facing a boycott after announcing a partnership with Planet Harvest, a company co-founded by Ivanka Trump. Planet Harvest is a for-profit company that connects farmers' imperfect produce to ...

If you're looking up at the sky on Friday, Sept. 19 2025 and seeing some very bright stars near the moon, you might be wondering: What's the deal? What are those stars? Are they planets? The answers ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. This article was ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, might have once been hospitable for life, according to a recent study. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Ceres, the ...

An Earth-sized planet just 40 light-years away could be a viable home for alien life, scientists have discovered. The planet TRAPPIST-1e orbits its star in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, where ...