The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
In a cosmic milestone that once seemed straight out of science fiction, astronomers have captured something previously only imagined: the birth of a planet. This is not a simulation or an artist’s ...
HoYo has announced Petit Planet, a cosmic life simulation game for PC and mobile, with addition platforms currently in development. Recruitment for the “Coziness Test,” which will ...
This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...
Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...
Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker's home planet ...
Astronomers in Japan have spotted a distant object orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, pointing to an extraordinary event that took place during the earliest years of the solar system. Astronomers ...
Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...
Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. A ...