When the two dense stellar remnants, known as white dwarfs, finally merge, they will trigger a Type 1a supernova, a powerful ...

With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...