When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

As if we needed more proof, an internet legend traced the telling pattern of his garage's shadow over the course of a year.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, ...

Space-based solar power is emerging as a potentially transformative clean energy technology that could drastically cut ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

Space is filled with outliers. While some solar systems function similarly to ours, others embody astrophysical properties that scientists still cannot explain. Some extrasolar gas giants, for ...

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 ...

Flat Earthers have travelled to Antarctica and even attempted to fly in homemade rockets in their quest to prove the world is ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

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, ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.