To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects ... which were being pushed and pulled by the planet’s gravity. They tried to understand what was causing ...

Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for ... measurements from out in space. Here’s where the quantum magic kicks in: QGGPf uses two clouds of ultra-cold atoms ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

One of the rarest variations is a binary system, in which the path of a planet revolves around two stars ... To confirm the rarely detected space oddity, astronomers utilized radial velocity ...