There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

And although it has the highest radius of all the stars, it is not actually the most massive, as UY Scuti is about 30 times the weight of our sun, a stark reminder that you can't judge a star entirely ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

The latest Borderlands game gets the series back on track by not only leaning into its strengths, but enhancing them further ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

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