General relativity doesn’t just bend light, it can influence planetary orbits enough to wipe out entire systems.

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.

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Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Mariana and Riki make an unstoppable team. Riki earned a culinary arts degree from the Argentine Institute of Gastronomy and Mariana has a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and extensive experience in ...

A struggling economy, the rise of right-wing populism and suspicious eaters are all combining to wipe London’s vegan scene from the map. What went wrong?

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

The Solar System feels familiar because we grew up learning its names. In reality, it is vast, unstable, and indifferent. Planets collide, orbits shift, and scale overwhelms human intuition. These ...