A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

Revenge of the Savage Planet game director Alex Hutchinson talks strange new worlds and mocking corporate spaceflight.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

Scientists suspect two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 may have come from Mercury, marking a first in Space research.

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

But then, just ahead, they spot a planet! So they head right for it, rockets blazing, then dive down and use its gravity to slingshot to safety. Hooray! Cue the triumphant music.