In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Not so fast. If our Milky Way did play a role, then we might expect our system of dwarf satellites to display their own ...

Blending sci-fi and adventure with an undercurrent of distinctly British humor, Doctor Who manages to be playful and ...

Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers are facing great adversity. They have fallen 2–0 behind the Los Angeles Kings in the ...

Digging into the statistics reveals reasons for cautious optimism.

Young white dwarf binaries (in this case a white dwarf and a star) rarely have strong magnetic fields, but their evolved interacting counterparts (cataclysmic variables) often do. As the objects begin ...

Over the first month of the 2025 season, we’ve seen an interesting trend in the home run rankings. Reigning American League ...

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...