Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Dark energy is a dynamic entity, rather than a matter-of-fact constant in the universe’s rapid unfurling, a team of ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...