A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

Officially named Cha J11070768-7626326, or Cha1107-7626, the lone, five to ten Jupiter-mass object burst into life in a ...

T Cha is no ordinary young, Sun-like star. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk, the dense, rotating structure of gas and ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden ...

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

In the Solar System, there’s only one other gas giant: Saturn, currently visible to the west in the early evening. Leaving ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole twisting spacetime, confirming a century-old prediction of ...

Metaplanet, a Japanese public company, reports a significant increase in its Bitcoin holdings by acquiring 4,279 BTC in Q4 ...