THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

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Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year and won’t be visible again until 2028. Saturn is famed for its icy rings, but ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.