Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

India faces severe climate impacts, including heatwaves, cyclones, and water-related disasters, requiring urgent adaptation ...

Mark sits on a burglar, or Jez eats a dog on a barge? What's the very best episode of beloved British comedy Peep Show?

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The find is believed to contain the largest deposit of medium and heavy REEs in China, fueling the country's high-tech ambitions.

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...