Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 ...

Planet Labs' stock is up over 468% in the past 12 months. Planet's backlog grew to $734 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2026. Planet Labs' stock skyrocketed recently on a solid quarterly ...

For the third time in a year, Planet Labs has signed a "major satellite services contract" with a foreign government, this time with the Swedish military (Japan and Germany were the previous ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...

Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty space. In a stroke of luck, researchers were able to spot this strange, dark world using both ...

When we imagine a planet, we think of one like ours, orbiting a star. But some have a far lonelier existence, drifting through interstellar space without a sun to call their own. Known as “rogue” or ...

An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything ...