Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

The neutrino is a ghost particle it can't be detected under normal circumstances, and it doesn't belong to earth, but it's ...

The mysteries of the Universe are as vast as the Universe itself. Proof of this is the recent discovery made by astronomers at the University of North Carolina. They chanced upon a very large planet ...

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

“I mostly just hope it's real.” Planets around binary stars were first predicted by science fiction before it became science reality. The universe is really interesting and there's lots of ...

Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the universe ... matter takes on perhaps its strangest form yet: the "nuclear pasta." ...