An international team of astronauts have conducted a detailed study of planets being born around young stars. The ...

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...

This new potentially habitable planet is about 146 light-years away and has some conditions similar to that of Mars. The team of researchers and scientists, from Australia, UK, US and Denmark ...

General relativity doesn’t just bend light, it can influence planetary orbits enough to wipe out entire systems.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists ...

The International Space Station is visible from Nevada at certain times. Here’s when to look, where to go and how to track it ...

We review Orbit, a racing game published by Bitewing Games. In Orbit, players compete to visit all planets of the system, ...

International Space Station, where astronauts have lived and worked for 25 years, is visible to us on Earth. How to see it ...