In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned that runaway collisions in orbit could trigger a self-sustaining debris cascade, making space travel nearly impossible. Decades later, crowded orbits, ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

Scripps Ranch-Recently, I interviewed both the actor and director of Scripps Ranch Theatre’s Donna Orbits the Moon. Ian August’s one-woman show stars the incredibly talented Susan Clausen. Yesterday I ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

CBS News’ newest “star” contributor issued a lengthy statement riddled with justifications—and contradictions—regarding his ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

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V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

A man watches in disbelief as Austrian Airlines refunds him just $108 after a botched ticket change request. But the airline ...

FILE: Ukrainian servicemen of Khartia brigade control the drone aerial view in the command centre in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, ...

One of Joe Rogan's most trusted medical gurus, the longevity doctor praised as a 'handsome, sneaky genius', has been humiliated.

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...