Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...