Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

In context: NASA estimates that a single galaxy may harbor trillions of rogue planets. These starless worlds drift alone through interstellar space and have no parent star. They remain challenging to ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...

The satellite imaging company keeps winning new contracts from governments around the globe. Planet Labs' stock is up over 600% in the past year. Here's why the stock is up yet again this week.

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. It forms an eye-catching ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Disturbing viral video shows the moment a transgender gymgoer appears to be masturbating in a stall inside the women’s bathroom at a Planet Fitness in California. Planet Fitness patron Grace Hutson ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Time is often treated as constant, but Einstein showed that it isn’t. Speed and gravity both affect how fast time moves, and this has been proven through real experiments and satellite technology.

The largest oil reserves of any country on the planet, more than 300 billion barrels, are estimated to lie beneath the ground in Venezuela. President Donald Trump is now laying claim to these vast ...