A newly discovered transiting exoplanet close to the solar system could be a prime target for atmospheric investigations, including the...

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With a mass of 21 times that of the sun, the black hole of Cygnus X-1 challenges theories of stellar...

A massive stellar bulge found in a regularly rotating galaxy when the Universe was just 1.2 billion years old could...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to realise the abundance of hydrogen in the stars and the universe at large....

The rhythmic movement of five of the six exoplanets around the star TOI-178 could challenge theories of planetary evolution.

The Trappist-1 exoplanets are comprised of similar materials to Earth but their lower density could indicate radically different worlds.

This year is set to be an important one for astronomy, cosmology and physics as researchers across these fields seek...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that is ejecting a massive amout of gas. The outburst could represent the end of...

The discovery of primordial black holes could answer a multitude of lingering questions such as the nature of dark matter,...

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Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to...

Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.

Over 70 years as humanity has begun to explore space, we have upon occasion, turned our gaze back to our...

The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.

A tidal disruption in a distant galaxy could explain its lack of dark matter, to the relief of many physicists,...

It's a bird. It's a plane. No... it's Hollywood's bad physics.

For billions of years, Mars has had quite the leak.

A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.

Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.