Could humans survive on other planets? What would it take to live on Mars, Venus, or even a moon like Titan? From low gravity to toxic atmospheres, every planet presents a unique challenge. Watch as ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Marcussen. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively low-mass star has been discovered, thanks to the way the planet's gravity drags its star around on its journey through space.

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity ... traveling at different speeds depending ...

The latest update for Sins of a Solar Empire 2 brings some icy variety to the galaxy, adds new ship artifacts, and tweaks the game's AI.

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to the bottom of whether Pluto is a planet, I tracked down planetary scientist ...

The Law of Gravity is a bold roller-coaster ride through the potentials and pitfalls to be found in the merger of live classical music and ‘object theatre’, ​writes Joyce McMillan ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...