Astronomers have just uncovered a giant cavity in our galaxy, and it was hiding in plain sight. Sitting between the Taurus and Perseus molecular clouds, this 500-light-year-wide bubble was long ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

Scientists have discovered the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a carbon-rich disk surrounding an exoplanet hundreds of light years away that could reveal how moons ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...