Its outer layers are stripped away ... From scalding lava to deadly radiation, these planets show just how extreme the universe can be. Earth may seem ordinary, but in a cosmos filled with fiery ...

Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

"This black hole could then grow and consume the entire planet, turning it into a black hole with the same mass as the ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

An international research team led by researcher Gu Shenghong from the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Voyager 1 is about to go where no human-carrying spaceship has gone before. June 15, 2012— -- Fifty-five years after humans first escaped the bounds of Earth and launched a satellite into orbit, ...

Gravity not only holds us firmly to the ground but also anchors oceans, keeps the atmosphere in place, and binds planets and stars into systems.