Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...