First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ...

The image shared by NASA shows a dense, opaque cloud which is concealing the star.

For the first time, Russian scientists will assess the prospects for life in outer space, AzerNEWS reporta, citing foreign media.

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than ...

A new NASA mission will launch in September, that will send ultraviolet cameras further from the Earth, to better capture the ...

Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

Elon Musk confirmed that he'd changed the location of his 'Million-person' Space X city, following claims he would found a ...

In A Nutshell A star 3,260 light-years away dimmed by over 95% for six months, one of the longest stellar blackouts ever ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

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Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...