Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...

A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

The idea of sailing endlessly across a seemingly infinite horizon of blue water with no sign of land in sight? No beaches of ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

What if you heard the orchestra from Peter Gabriel’s perspective with immersive DTS-HD Master Audio? In fact, the Blu-ray Disc packaging and frankly most of the press materials I had read, don’t offer ...

Lead author Andy Tzanidakis' rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Photo: Andy Tzanidakis Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old ...

It’s hard to think of a harder reverse in terms of definition – something quintessentially heavy coming, over time, to mean ...

Featured on the cover of the February 12, 1996, issue, the Applied Physics Laboratory’s NEAR spacecraft was designed to orbit a near-Earth asteroid in 1999; it launched 30 years ago this week. The ...

After Chelsea's loss at the Emirates left them 19 points behind Arsenal, a study revealed how the two clubs occupy different planets when it comes to business competency.

Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability by Gege Li, Imperial College London edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...