The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

Discover space facts so terrifying they feel like fiction. From vacuum death to spaghettification by black holes and invisible dark matter, the cosmos hold ...

In 2020, a study confirmed that two planets orbited the nearby red dwarf, GJ 887. Now, astronomers have confirmed the ...

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

From phone boxes and flux capacitors to black holes and hot tubs, sci-fi has created plenty of ways to explore the fourth ...

Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which look like corkscrews, and Brazil has a tree so huge it looks like a lush, ...

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...

Distinguishing between brown dwarfs and giant planets has confused astronomers, but a clear separating factor has finally been identified.

Diamonds are rare, sparkling gems made entirely of carbon. They are the hardest natural material found on Earth. Right now, ...