Chinese customs seized 60,000 maps it deemed "problematic" over their labelling of Taiwan and omission of territory Beijing claims in the South China Sea, authorities said. China claims the self-ruled ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Astronomers in a groundbreaking discovery have spotted previously unknown ring formation around a smaller icy celestial ...

In the depths of the Earth, hidden within some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, lay a secret 4.5 billion years old.

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...