On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio ...

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere ...

Venus has a hazy lower atmosphere. New research suggests that it is caused by cosmic dust, fragments of shooting stars.

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.