A hazy, ultra-light “super-puff” planet, Kepler-51d, is hiding its secrets and challenging how scientists understand planet formation.

Located just 35 light-years away, this world is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth. But don’t call it a twin. It’s a scorching, pungent orb wrapped in an atmosphere of hydrogen and sulfur, perched ...

A newly studied exoplanet, Kepler-51d, is wrapped in an unusually dense layer of haze that may be hiding both what it is made of and how it formed ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

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At least that’s what eighth-grade teacher and doctor of molecular biology Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) thinks, which is why he’s become something of a pariah in the scientific community and is teaching ...