Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond our solar system. An "audacious" leap that might change how we see our ...

TREASURE could be lurking just out of sight on the Moon – just waiting to be extracted. That’s the idea put forward by ...

Imagine the Sun as a giant, boiling magnet that breathes in and out – slowly and rhythmically – every 11 years. That rhythm shows up in things we can count and measure. These include things like the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object traveling with Earth around the Sun — an asteroid known as a “quasi-moon.” This small celestial object, designated 2025 PN7, was first detected on August 2 at ...

University of Texas Arlington provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

NASA announced its latest class of astronauts, which includes Anna Menon. Menon is the first NASA astronaut to have orbited Earth before being selected. She previously flew on the private Polaris Dawn ...