Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Although the sun is a million times the volume of Earth, a white dwarf is roughly the size of our Earth. Most of the white dwarf will consist of a special ultradense state of matter called ...