CoRoT-2 b is a hot Jupiter 696 light-years away whose thermal hotspot is shifted in the wrong direction. New VLT data suggests the reason is its unusually slow rotation.

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Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

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For every "Alien" or "Event Horizon," there are dozens of lesser-known space horror movies that deserve much more love and ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...

Scientists can't fully agree on what GJ504b actually is. It may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf, a mysterious class of ...