The biggest planet in the Solar System. And the smallest star in the known Universe. Today, they are on a collision course.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

Small in size, big in bite. From unusual eating habits to strange behaviours, we explore what makes the world’s smallest ...

Late last July, a University astrophysicist helped discover the smallest planet ever detected outside the solar system — without even seeing it. Using a planet-finding technique called "gravitational ...

As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking object. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

Big problems come in small packages. A North Carolina man with the “world’s smallest penis” has revealed some of the biggest problems he faces being not so well-endowed, including maintaining a sexual ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

NASA bragged Tuesday that its Kepler Space Telescope had discovered the two smallest planets ever found orbiting a distant star, but a UA astronomer and colleagues may have discovered even smaller ...

Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical conditions, new Perseverance observations hint. When you purchase through ...