The festivities culminated in the NBA All-Star Game, where the league’s top players put on a show for fans worldwide. Shaq’s ...

T here have been 14 Star Trek films released since 1979. Those films have covered four distinct periods of the franchise ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Around a star 880 light-years from Earth orbits one of the wildest, most extreme exoplanets we've found to date.

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

My plan may deviate significantly from this regime because my goal isn’t to build the best possible team in 2025. I'm looking ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by liquid iron rains.

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature.

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...