About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. New research hints that planets like ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

Planets orbiting dead stars known as white dwarfs might be able to remain habitable thanks to general relativity subtly altering their motion. When stars like our sun run out of fuel, they expand and ...

Astronomers once believed that a planet named Vulcan orbited closer to the Sun than Mercury. This documentary explores the search, the mystery, and the final solution. Trump wants to ‘end’ largest US ...

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