Earlier this year, many university departments slashed their incoming PhD classes in a last-minute scramble as the Trump ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Early depictions of alien planets in science fiction reflected pure imagination — jungles on Venus, canals on Mars, and ...

WEST BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — Mt. Pisgah State Park will host an astronomy-minded kids program entitled “Phases of the Moon” from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Nature Center.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of the first known rogue black hole wandering through our galaxy, a discovery that ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

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Evaluation of the impact of the most recent €10-million Europlanet project funded by the European Commission (EC) has been featured as a case study ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

Postdoctoral researcher Roberto Silva Villatoro works in the High Throughput Experimentation and Chromatography (HiTEC) Core ...