Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

Water may look ordinary, but it is one of the strangest and most essential substances in existence. Its unusual chemical ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy fun and entertaining space animations that explain the solar system and the ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Astronomers have found growing evidence that runaway black holes are hurtling through galaxies at extreme speeds, leaving ...

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the ...

Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...

Researchers detail a 2035 Solar Oberth maneuver mission using chemical propulsion to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS within 35 to 50 years.