Today, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word “planet” and, in doing so, redefined our solar system by downgrading Pluto’s status from “planet” to “dwarf planet”. In ...

Curious about the strangest planets out there? Prepare to dive deep into the cosmos, where bizarre and incredible exoplanets await. These planets are so unusual that they challenge everything we know ...

Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASA’s TESS mission—and it’s paying ...

Hey, nobody said that open-world games need to stick to a single planet. As the concept grew, developers started to push and redefine the concept of sandboxes, creating playgrounds that used to be ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky. Stargazers in the U.S. will need a clear horizon to spot the planetary duo ...

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Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...

Which planets are in Star Wars Outlaws? As you might expect from an open-world Star Wars game, Outlaws takes us on a massive adventure across the galaxy, with multiple accessible planets filled with ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...