Jewish scholars would add that the term “18,000 habitable worlds” created by Allah, reflects the fact that the number 18 in Hebrew is equal numerically to the word life, i.e. worlds with intelligent ...

In the vast journey of exploring the universe, scientists recently announced a significant discovery that could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos. They captured subtle signals that suggest the ...

The planet K2-18b is located about 120 light-years away from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Leo. It orbits a ...

Western astronomers have known that the Earth’s orbit is not perfectly round since Johannes Kepler reported back in the early ...

As of Monday, Aug. 18, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 25% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull on each other in a binary system. They interact, they irradiate one another, ...

The man, who has been an astrophysics PhD academic for more than 40 years, said he was not scared of dying but was afraid of ...

On Earth, plants are green thanks to our Sun’s light—but Kepler-186f orbits a cooler, redder star. Here’s why alien vegetation might evolve with deep red hues instead of green.

Kepler-139 f is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. The mass of this planet is 36 times that of Earth, which takes 355 days to complete one orbit of its star. It was discovered by NASA ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center Trump Wins Supreme Court ...

Another peculiar aspect of this solar system is that in the time it takes KOI-134 b to complete one of its orbits (that would be 67 days), KOI-134 c does it two times (at most 34 days) – that's ...