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K2-18b — our celestial neighbor — may contain the building blocks for life.

Humankind’s disgraceful rubbish footprint swirling between California and Hawaii may have just met its match.

Recently astronomers identified a black hole near a star called LB-1 and they found out that the black hole is 70 times the mass of the sun. This is a mystery because the biggest black holes we can get from the deaths of the most massive stars are around 30 times the mass of the sun, so how did black hole get this big?

A new study gives insight into Venus' climatic history.

Currently Voyager 2 is about 11 billion miles from the Earth, and has been traveling at speeds of tens of thousands of miles per hour since its launch in 1977. Read more to see where it is now and what we've learned.

There’s a reason for your post-Thanksgiving-meal “itis,” but don’t blame it on the turkey.

Here is what you need to know about the tropical cyclone making its way to the U.S. mainland.

How did our solar system form? It's a pretty simple and straightforward question, but as with most things in science, simple and straightforward doesn't necessarily mean easy.

Sometimes when you want to go out, you want to go out with a bang.

As most people now spend around 90% of their time indoors, digging into dust holds up a microscopic mirror to our everyday lives.

Okay, stars die in all sorts of interesting and cosmically expressive ways (except the red dwarf stars, who just sort of…stop).

Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter shares the latest in the world of rocket launches and what India’s SSLV is all about.

There are a few elements that prevent this theory from working.

Hurricane season is a fearful and anxious time of year for many people. Tropical cyclones and storms occur in a geographical belt affecting mostly US coastal states, but the physical and financial destruction they cause mean that science must improve constantly to minimize their effects on society.