Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them.

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

The Dutch astrochemist visited Barcelona to take part in Cosmocaixa’s ‘Greats of Science’ series ...

Since the original film premiered in 1968, the Planet of the Apes franchise has gone through countless transformations. Based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel La Planète des singes, the series has ...

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A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...