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Modeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine with intense radiation bombardment and strip away their atmospheres.

Astronomers have found that one of the lightest exoplanets ever seen, the young 'cotton candy' world V1298 Tau b, may be shrinking from the size of Jupiter to the width of a super-Earth.

For years, physicists have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a newly approved European space mission called LISA will help us with this hunt.

How do scientists know if a planet has a magnetic field?

Einstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime where matter inexorably falls into black holes, as predicted by general relativity.

A surprisingly low amount of methane explains how WASP-107 b grew into the inflated world we see today.

Scientists are diving into the mystery of the missing storm in Earth's magnetotail, which refers to our planet's magnetic field tail.

SpaceX just fueled up its giant Starship rocket, checking another box ahead of the vehicle's fourth test flight.

The auroral displays that wowed observers around the world two weekends ago may have been among the strongest such light shows since record-keeping began.

These samples are uniquely important for return to Earth for further study.

Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight got to live out his long-delayed spaceflight dream with a suborbital launch this weekend. Here's what he had to say about it.

An infant star in a faraway system will likely someday look like our very own sun, and the Hubble Telescope snapped a lovely image of it.

Blue Origin sent six people to the final frontier today (May 19) on the company's first crewed spaceflight since August 2022.

An examination of the angels of the moons of Iego from "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" on the iconic film's 25th anniversary.

A Quiet Place is expanding its universe with an ambitious prequel.

On the evening of Saturday (May 18) a bright fireball lit up the skies over Portugal and Spain in stunning green and blue as it streaked through Earth's atmosphere.

Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don't know how to fix it. It's the cold spot. It's just way too big and way too cold.

NASA is studying innovative rocket system developed by Howe Industries that could reducing travel time to the Red Planet to just a few months.

A pair of cubesats will measure far-infrared radiation from Earth's poles to improve climate predictions.