In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

Neill Blomkamp's critically acclaimed sci-fi film District 9, a financial and critical success, is set to stream on Netflix ...

An Austrian appeals court has rejected a request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States. The ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that challenge the known laws of physics, suggesting the ...

Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...