About 24,000 elephants live in Namibia, a southwest African country known for its desert landscapes and wildlife parks. Most ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of a mysterious planet lurking far beyond Neptune, a world several times ...

It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, ...

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

High above Earth, where space and the planet’s magnetic field meet, powerful forces collide. Streams of charged particles ...

A transiting exoplanet has revealed a huge "spot" near the pole of its tiny M-dwarf parent star. The spot has been around at ...

A huge object, possibly as big as Manhattan, has entered our Solar System and it might be more than just a rock. Some scientists now say it could ...

A rare celestial object beyond Neptune, 2020 VN40, moves in sync with Neptune, offering new insights into the outer solar system and fueling the search for Planet Nin ...