The founder of Mt. Gox, Ripple and Stellar has shed more light on his plans to launch a commercial space station into orbit ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

The planet is about six times more massive than Earth and could be rocky, offering a unique opportunity to study a heavier ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Artist's rendering of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794.Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) The ...

Earth's 'eccentric' orbit of the sun determines ice ages. Researchers have long suspected changes in the Earth's orbit of the sun are involved in determining when ice ages occur. Lisiecki's group ...

In a March 20 interview with Bloomberg, Jed McCaleb confirmed that Vast is on track to launch Haven-1 — a commercial space station still under construction — into orbit by May 2026.

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

This would have been an important finding in isolation, but because scientists can tell a lot about a planet from its orbit ... orbits and those with more eccentric orbits. There appeared to ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...