Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

The life cycles of stars are fascinating, and sometimes the line between stars and planets isn’t as clear as it […] ...

"This black hole could then grow and consume the entire planet, turning it into a black hole with the same mass as the ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a new model to better understand “steam worlds,” or water-rich sub-Neptunes—some ...

We currently know of more than 5,800 planets beyond the solar system, but we've only found the tiniest fraction of the exoplanets that astronomers think lie elsewhere in the universe.

A new theory suggests that “time” might be the product of a universe that, long ago, decided to settle down into one ...

There are about 700 quintillion terrestrial exoplanets in the visible universe and they are on average a few billion years older than Earth. Our planet is also in the minority when it comes to ...