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Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

Learn about steam worlds outside of our Solar System that could provide answers in the search for alien life.

Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its ...

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Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

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Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet trapped in a death spiral around its star could unlock some of the secrets ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...

A highly speculative new theory touches on three of the hottest topics in astronomy and the connections between them.