Most planets in our solar system are tilted. Earth’s 23-degree tilt gives us our seasons, while Mars sits at just over 25 degrees. Then you have the overachievers: Uranus is essentially lying on its ...

Science loves big sample groups. When you’re trying to run a good experiment, your results will be a lot more reliable if you have a couple thousand subjects instead of, say, a couple dozen. That’s ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern Hemisphere (HARPS-N), an international team of astronomers has discovered a ...

What can sub-Neptunes, exoplanets whose sizes are between Earth and Neptune, and which are between the known for their water-rich compositions, teach astronomers about both where and how to find life ...

What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists ...