Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was discovered. In the early 20th century, the businessman, astronomer, and ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980 ...

March 26, 2025 Planet Money buys a mystery diamond March 26, 2025 • The deal seemed too good to be true. There's a website that's been selling top quality diamonds at bizarrely low prices ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

The team of cosmic homicide detectives determined a strange X-ray signal is the dying scream of a planet destroyed by a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf. The signal, which originates ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being ...

One of those things is reportedly Planet X, a Groot movie where he returns to his home planet. As we all know well, MCU actors are supposed to stay very, very quiet about anything involving their ...

March 28, 2025 • Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? This episode, we partner with Radiolab to take stock of the essential raw materials that enable us to live as ...

Mule trekking across the other-worldly Atlas range, our writer discovers a destination as unique as it is overlooked ...