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A hidden 'super-Earth' exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zoneWith 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.
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Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.
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See a young star potentially giving birth to a giant planet in new image from Very Large TelescopeNew images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.
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Turning the Red Planet green? It's time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists sayA new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential path forward.
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James Webb telescope spots 'groundbreaking' molecule in scorching clouds of giant 'hell planet'A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in any planetary atmosphere to date.
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Long, dark 'streaks' spotted on Mars aren't what scientists thoughtA set of dark streaks that regularly wind across the Martian surface are more likely to be formed by dust and wind than by water, a new artificial intelligence analysis has revealed.
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Giant planet discovered around tiny star challenges our best theoriesScientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it. The discovery could further challenge theories of planet formation.
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Solar 'cannonballs' may have stripped Mars of its water, study revealsAfter nearly a decade in orbit, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that scientists had long suspected was responsible for stripping Mars of its atmosphere.
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James Webb telescope spots weird changes on Jupiter's icy moon EuropaThe ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean, new James Webb telescope observations reveal.
