Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For ...

The third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, currently wandering in our solar system, is changing shapes and emitting different ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

According to the study, scientists had assumed that searing heat and thick gas layers would melt mini-Neptune crusts into ...

Researchers from the University of Jaffna and Imperial College London have uncovered critical insights into optimizing ...

Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Their detectors captured the gravitational waves created by the violent crash of two immense black ...