A huge pleasure this year too was helping Weatherglass Books judge their new Novella Prize; some of the best things I read ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Arceus's extraordinary powers know no bounds, potentially surpassing Thanos and redefining the rankings of the Universe's ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

Scheduled to pass by Earth on April 13, 2029, Apophis will come within just 19,000 miles of our planet—closer than some ...

Sturdy and familiar pillars support this origin story behind the science-fiction movies, set 10,000 years earlier.

A massive asteroid will experience earthquake-like tremors when it makes a historic close approach to Earth in 2029, ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star system, which can host potentially-habitable planets. Our nearest ...

The asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of chaos ... closest proximity to our planet. Quakes of this nature would ...