Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

An international research team, including the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASSI), discovered a "long-period super ... years away from Earth (1 light-year is the distance light ...

Data reveals why last month’s earthquake was so devastating ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

The phenomenon happens when the moon is at a point farthest away from Earth, about 251,000 miles away according to NASA. It's opposite to a supermoon, where the moon swings closer to Earth and ...

Images: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens / Lauren ... into the atmosphere, punching far above where commercial jets cruise and most weather lives. But what really blew scientists’ minds?

Despite this, researchers now estimate that, statistically, for every three stars in the universe, there could be at least one super-Earth with a Jupiter-like orbital distance. This suggests these ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the largest volcanic eruptions in ... disconnected picture of the Pacific ...

Or something else entirely (Picture: Getty/NASA/Metro ... that smells like cabbage, which, on Earth, has one source. K2-18b is 124 light-years away. It might not sound like much, yet just a ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...