We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.
Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black.
The 2017 solar eclipse is nearly upon us. The path of totality will travel across 14 states, starting in Oregon and ending in South Carolina, and may trigger what some have called a “zombie apocalypse” across the contiguous U.S. as people flood the roads, skies and rails to travel to their viewing locations.
Scientists have long held the belief that planets — including Earth — were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view.
If confirmed, the shiny new worlds may help astronomers better understand how strange planets known as hot Jupiters are created.
But our days of massive exoplanet dumps may be numbered.
Scientists have found a hellish world where the “surface” of the planet is over 4,000C – almost as hot as our Sun.
Researchers are now pretty certain there’s a ninth planet in the solar system.
A proposed project would send soap-size spacecraft to orbit Proxima Centauri, offering enough time to study the star’s intriguing world.
Alien planets that orbit especially close to their stars have a bigger chance of losing their moons, which may reduce the chances that habitable alien moons will survive for very long around those planets, a new study finds.
