"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of a mysterious planet lurking far beyond Neptune, a world several times ...

A groundbreaking study from the Universities of Barcelona and Padua challenges the inflation theory, suggesting the universe began from a stable De Sitter space, driven by gravity and quantum ...

Modelling suggests that data collected by JWST will be able to distinguish between planets that are molten to the core and ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...