Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

On average, Martian time ticks roughly 477 millionths of a second faster than terrestrial clocks per Earth day. But the Red ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters and tidal forces allowed Charon to lose energy and become permanently bound ...

On July 1st, 2025, the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected was seen making its way through our solar system.

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, has become central to research on how small worlds form and evolve in the outer Solar System. The pair orbits a shared centre of mass that lies outside Pluto’s surface, a ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

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Glen Schofield, who co-created Dead Space and most recently directed The Callisto Protocol, is leaving Striking Distance Studios. In a new report published by Bloomberg and independently confirmed by ...