Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Despite the urgent need to cut fossil fuel pollution to tackle the human-caused climate crisis, there is “no sign” of a ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

America’s allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald Trump’s re-election will mean for ...

Oil profits could fund climate commitments; taxing windfall gains may finance poorer countries' climate protection.

After nearly a decade of negotiations, leaders during the United Nations climate conference's first day decided on some of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule Tuesday that implements a charge for oil and gas companies that ...