Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit ...

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The ...

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

Millisecond pulsar binaries may produce the excess 511 keV photons seen in the galaxy. These systems could expose hidden pulsars and even exoplanets. Many astrophysicists devote their work to tracing ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might have a nitrogen-rich atmosphere like Earth’s ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole combustion implosion. New research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole in their core. As the ...