Phil Plait has a great article exploring the physics of what it would take to blow up a planet, whether you're a bureucratic Vogon just doing your job, or a Galactic Empire trying to brutally suppress ...

One of the great things about movies set in space is that the writers have the opportunity to come up with some fantastically crazy situations. Just look at the planet Sovereign, revealed at the ...

For years, the existence of a missing Planet 9 has been one of the predominate theories attempting to explain some of the eccentric orbits found in the outer Solar System. But so far, no such planet ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters The 2016 Paolo Farinella Prize has ...

The elevation of climate change to one of the major scientific issues of the 21 st century brought Artaxo’s work to the forefront. The nearly 2,000 scientists who made significant contributions to the ...

Super Planet Crash is a pretty simple game: players build their own planetary system, putting planets into orbit around a star and racking up points until they add a planet that destabilizes the whole ...

Our solar system officially houses eight planets, but some scientists say there could be a ninth. And that’s not just Pluto aficionados – evidence suggests a huge undiscovered world lurks on the dark ...

A swiftly growing planet: An artist's impression of the planet Cha 1107-7626 and the accretion disk surrounding it. When the infalling material from the disk reaches the planet, it heats up the ...