Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...
Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...
A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from Earth due to its gravity, scientists believe ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.