The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

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A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

Astronomers believe they may have uncovered evidence of a hidden Earth -size planet lurking in the outer solar system. Dubbed ...

We teamed up with the makers of Frozen Planet II for a science Live Lesson exploring the coldest places on Earth and the ...