Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has issued a grave warning about a 'city-killer' asteroid whose odds of smashing ...

A former astronaut has revealed terrifying new details about Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 'city-killer' space rock that with a chance ...

The scientists ascertained the Earth “wobbled” as it rotated. They called the wobble, “Chandler’s Wobble.” If my memory serves me correctly, I believe the wobble apex (the center point on the upper ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

A strong, stable vortex is like a skater spinning with their arms tucked closely in, holding in an area of cold air over the Arctic. But when there’s a wobble in the rotation, winds in the vortex can ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...