"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

India's planned Chandrayaan-4 mission aims to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth, requiring two separate launches ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth ...

Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make ...

In a nutshell Scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time, ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of new studies trying to ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

President Donald Trump signed an order this week to phase out paper straws in federal agencies. Will Florida cities be ...