“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling Jupiter toward the Sun. If it sounds like science fiction, that’s because ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

The universe is dealing lucky cards today for Cancer, Libra, Aries, Capricorn, and Scorpio on June 24, but only for the brave who know when to raise the stakes. Here's the powerful horoscope forecast ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The team found a planet 1.3 times the size of Jupiter, which orbits around a so-called M dwarf – a relatively small and cool star – once every 4,170 days.

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...