Spiral-arm-like features seen around two newborn stars, SAO 206462 and MWC 758, may be evidence for the presence of giant, unseen planets, says a team...
By analyzing data collected by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have found that, on average, Mercury spins on its axis 9 seconds faster than had...
MESSENGER mission scientists have confirmed that the probe impacted the surface of Mercury on April 30th, as predicted, at 3:26 p.m. EDT (12:26 p.m. PDT,...
Carbon from cometary material that bombards Mercury, the first planet from the Sun, may be the reason the planet’s surface is heavily dark, says new...
According to a team of scientists co-led by Prof Maria Zuber of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prof Jay Melosh of Purdue University, meteorites...
An unusual stellar object named ROXs 42Bb may represent a new kind of planets or it may be a very rare planet-mass brown dwarf, according to a group of...
According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...
European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...
Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...
Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...
A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy.
Artist’s...
A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...
ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin.
The image shows the interconnected craters Sigli...
Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System.
In this artist interpretation,...
European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...
Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter.
Mars:...
Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent...
A new study by European scientists has suggested that intense ultraviolet radiation on Mars releases methane from organic materials which meteorites transport...
