General relativity doesn’t just bend light, it can influence planetary orbits enough to wipe out entire systems.

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.

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Shipping data showed the vessels gathering in distinct, coordinated lines in the East China Sea twice in recent weeks.

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.

Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump’s and my own. At 79, he’s just slightly ...

Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...

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Let’s start with a disclaimer: I am not one of those weird men who thinks about the Roman Empire every day, while putting out ...

BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...