Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com | NASA STEREO | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

WISPIT 2b was first detected using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Spectro-Polarimetric ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white dwarf star questions how Halla could exist. Credit: Space.com | animation ...

Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...