Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining life.

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

A ROGUE planet was spotted growing at a mind-bending rate of six billion tonnes a SECOND. The lost world doesn’t have a home star, which means it’s drifting through space – and ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of our galaxy. These faint, low-mass stars could be powered not by fusion, but by the annihilation of dark ...

BEN TO YOU NUMBERS RIGHT HERE. ALL RIGHT, ED, THANK YOU. IT’S THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS FOR THOUSANDS OF LOCAL KIDS, BUT FOR SOME OF THEM, MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM A BACKYARD TO THE SCHOOLYARD IS ...

Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for ages now. It is only since the pandemic that the internet has started flooding with optical illusion tests to test IQ and discover ...

Astronomers believe they have finally confirmed the existence of a group of black holes that are too hefty to be born from normal stars, yet too slim to anchor galaxies – intermediate-mass black holes ...