While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

The breakthrough measurement of the white dwarf LAWD 37 made with Hubble gives us a hint of how the sun will look at the end of its life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

Although mass is the most important property of stars, it has proved very hard to measure for the lowest mass objects in the universe. Thanks to a powerful new camera, a very rare, low-mass companion ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system. Eris is 1.27 ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a technique for obtaining accurate laser-based measurements of objects hidden behind complex scattering structures. They say that their mathematical formula, which ...

New Delhi: The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories have detected a merger between two compact objects designated as S251112cm on 11 December 2025. Most of these mergers are between black ...