Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment ...

( Nanowerk News) Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...