Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where ...

There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets." ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white.

Recent observations have revealed unusual activity in the atmosphere of a massive gas giant. Scientists tracking long-term ...

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on ...

Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just ...

Some movies you watch and never forget—because you can’t. Who could fail to remember the first time they saw Nazis in space, ...

Even those of us who love the first teaser for the HBO Max show Lanterns have to admit that it’s pretty light on the ...

In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...