Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Our solar system is speeding through the galaxy at more than three times the velocity scientists once believed, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The findings,released in November 2025, could ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

For space lovers, movies like Interstellar always stay on top, capturing the essence of human curiosity and exploration. The ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself again ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...