The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the distance to a spot clear across the galaxy. The established but challenging technique promises a new way to map the structure of the Milky ...

Prineha Narang, a physicist at UCLA who works at the intersection of condensed matter and quantum physics, tells Rob Lea about the challenges of defining yourself as a researcher, why she still puts ...

Although 4-year-olds’ concept of time often seems to consist solely of what they want right now, the passage of time still moves them. By that age, kids already mark time by referring to physical ...

Teaching online is challenging enough. Teaching online with an all-new curriculum and academic standards is even harder. Without updated teaching materials, many school districts across the state have ...

Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in ...

The effectiveness of face masks has been a hotly debated topic since the emergence of COVID-19. However, a new study offers more evidence that they work. Researchers found that face masks reduce the ...

School children are spaced apart in one of the rooms used for lunch at Woodland Elementary School in Milford, Massachusetts on Sept. 11, 2020. Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty ...

Today, about 3 million married Americans and as many as half of US college students are in a long-distance relationship — but don't feel too bad for them. Scientific studies show that couples in ...