Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As far as we know, things went off about as well as they could have, forming not only a planetary system but one which supports ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

This week, Science Friday is teaming up with Zooniverse to find space warps and weigh galaxies. The goal: Classify 1 million possible lenses and find six new gravitationally lensed galaxies in one ...

A new study from the University of Warwick demonstrates the impact of passing stars, misaligned binary stars and passing gas clouds on the formation of planets in early star systems. Scientists have ...

Think you can find space warps? Astronomers have recruited thousands of citizen scientists to look for exoplanets, galaxies, moon craters and other cosmic curiosities — and now they need your help to ...

Christopher Columbus may get the credit for discovering America, but you, dear reader, have the chance to discover your own galaxy and maybe a brown dwarf or two. The Space Warps project, which ...

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as “citizen scientists” can readily donate their time and effort to science–in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics. The ...

Marvel Comics’ upcoming Infinity Wars event series (no, not the movie) kicks off at the end of summer and leads up to a new project launching in September, now officially known as Infinity Warps.