Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

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Far out in the Saturn system, a small world refuses to behave. Iapetus spins in a way that should not be so stable, wears a ...

While millions flock to the neon embrace of Las Vegas, this geological masterpiece sits in eastern Nevada, putting on a daily performance that outshines any Cirque du Soleil production – and without a ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Hurricanes get their power from warm ocean water and the ocean has been warming since the 1880s. This video explains what ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...