Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have investigated more than 1000 planetary systems orbiting stars in our...
Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe...
A newly discovered visitor to the outer edges of our solar system has been shown to be the largest known...
Although the Pony Express lasted only a short time in the mid-1800s before being outperformed by the transcontinental telegraph, it...
A comet that broke apart before it was due to appear in Earth’s night sky last year has now nevertheless...
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around...
Nearly half of sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be...
Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On October 20,...
New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt—the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system...
Warm dense matter (WDM) measures thousands of degrees in temperature and is under the pressure of thousands of Earth’s atmospheres....
Our solar system formed from a molecular cloud, which was composed of gas and dust that was emitted into the...
UCLA astronomers have identified 366 new exoplanets, thanks in large part to an algorithm developed by a UCLA postdoctoral scholar....