Proxima Centauri, the sun’s nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a ...

The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.

The hunt is on for Earthlike planets outside our solar system that may harbor life. Astronomer Geoff Marcy explains the challenges of finding infinitesimally small planets orbiting huge, very bright ...

Jupiter is not just the oldest planet orbiting the sun—it’s also the largest. Jupiter is not just the oldest planet orbiting the sun—it’s also the largest. So when the young gas giant went on a ...

The four planets closest to the sun, called the rocky planets, were born from the same material in the same era. But they couldn’t be more different: Tiny Mercury is the runt of the litter, almost ...

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes had some “wonderful days” at the box office during its opening weekend – and one of the early breakout stars of the film is Freya Allan, who has one of the most ...