Our solar system is home to a whopping 891 moons, but the rest of the known cosmos? Nothing. Until now.  As a new paper in ...

Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that shaped the Milky Way.

For a world to maintain an atmosphere long enough for life to gain a foothold, it seems it needs to be at least as big as ...

Astronomers have discovered a faint new world orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

Well, for one thing, big summer tournaments aren’t too far away — the Women’s World Cup in Brazil starts in June, while the ...

In the more modern era, the longest eclipse will happen in northern South America on July 16, 2186. This one will peak at ...

Scientists have painted the most detailed portrait yet of the planetary system orbiting Barnard's Star—the sun's closest ...

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they ...

For three days, the Official Los Angeles World Cup Fan Zone transformed one of the world’s most iconic beachfront ...

Researchers have now made detailed observations of a Jupiter-like exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are known, that has lived on for billions of years after the death of its sun-like star ...

WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world ...