Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

The faster rotation flattened the cloud into a pancake, with the Sun at the center and planets forming within that plane. Planetary systems around other stars tend to form in a similar way.

A Reddit theory suggests that humanity had a different reason for scorching the skies in The Matrix, highlighting the ...

At the end of each survey line, pilots bank the airplane around for the next pass. “There’s a considerable amount of skill involved on the part of the pilots in making sure those turns are as ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Mars and Earth may look worlds apart, but they share more in common than many realize. From ancient riverbeds to atmospheric traces, the red planet echoes our own geological past. This video explores ...

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...