The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

A summer night’s sky has plenty of wonders to look at (have you ever seen the green flash!?), and you don’t need a telescope to see many of them. Just head to your favorite beach and let the ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to reach somewhere truly empty?

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike than we thought ...

Lacki’s study, “Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations,” has been posted to the preprint science journal arXiv. In it, he argues radio-bright galaxies may be bursting at the seams with advanced ...

rogue planets floating freely in the Galaxy; and alien worlds that circle two stars at once, just like the fictional Star Wars planet Tatooine. “Each is a whole brand-new world, brimming with ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth. Located just 4 light-years away, this possible ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said.