The video puts Minecraft-style planets into Solar Smash and tests different ways of breaking them apart. It compares how the ...

So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range from small, rocky worlds to enormous orbs of gas like our own Jupiter or Saturn. Some, ...

Quick tutorial I made on how to increase your brightness in Minecraft Java edition without mods or shaders.

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Natalie is a Pulitzer Prize winning ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to sophisticated simulations using thousands of different starting points. A ...

Winners & losers: For the first time in nearly two decades, Mojang has announced a significant change in Minecraft's hardware requirements, a rare move for one of the biggest gaming products in ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system Interstellar ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form. This artist's concept ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent ...

Since the 30% federal solar tax credit has expired, that incentive is no longer available to homeowners buying solar panels. State, local and utility incentives are now the main savings drivers. These ...

More than 6,000 exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, have so far been confirmed. The new technique involved analyzing old data from NASA's TESS satellite, focusing on fainter stars. Finding ...