Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

As April crawls to an end, an astrologer reveals the three zodiac signs that are especially unlucky—and the reasons why might ...

In 2010 astronomers made a marvelous discovery: buckyballs, also known as buckminsterfullerene molecules, inside a planetary ...

In celebration of NEPA Philharmonic’s upcoming spring concert “Planets, Moons, & Star Wars” on Friday, May 1, the Everhart ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

Giant “interstellar glaciers” of water ice have been mapped across the Milky Way by NASA’s SPHEREx telescope, possibly laying ...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...

A strange planetary system called TOI-201 is changing in real time, with three very different worlds pulling on each other.

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

Finder reports that SpaceX, eyeing a historic IPO, could be valued at over $1.75 trillion, offering potential investment ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...