With 'Project Hail Mary' opening in theaters, here are several essential films that explore the strange, high-stakes ...

Europa is not supposed to look the way it does. Jupiter's icy moon is scarred by a chaotic patchwork of fractured terrain, crisscrossed ridges, and disrupted surface regions that suggest something ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to rethink what lies at the center of Jupiter. Instead of the dense, compact ball of rock and ice that textbooks long assumed, new interior ...

NASA’s Juno Mission Probe Reveals Strange Findings Deep Within Jupiter ...

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear ...

If you keep at it long enough, that dough gets hot from the constant squeezing. That friction generates heat. Europa experiences these same gravitational tides ... that internal heat is what keeps its ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

The traditional Habitable Zone (sometimes called the Goldilocks zone) is kind of like a campfire. If you sit too close, you ...

While Jupiter’s surface is the largest ocean of Hydrogen, its core spinning like a dynamo is still a mystery. Nonetheless, the spotted planet is a beauty to behold. NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...