Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

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Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

As the series’ 50th anniversary approaches, '2000 AD' is gearing up for a total licensing takeover, and it's kicking off the ...

In the evening sky, brilliant Jupiter is the brightest starlike object among the bright stars of the winter season, ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

As a lifelong fan of the Star Wars saga, here's how I'd rank every movie in the franchise, from The Empire Strikes Back to ...