Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of Earth, and it takes 355 days to orbit its star, astronomers reported in a ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...