First planet of its kind with ‘gargantuan’ comet-like tail discovered - Planet’s ‘tail’ is millions of miles long, ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

To understand what this discovery means, let’s start with the bizarre world it was found in. The planet’s name is K2-18b, ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several ...

While the Earth Day movement has helped raise awareness about human-amplified climate change and has led to some regulatory actions, 5 1/2 decades later, the planet continues to warm at an alarming ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. The Mercury-sized planet ...