Among the uncounted stars in the universe may be worlds with environments unlike anything we have ever experienced. From crushing gravity and toxic atmospheres to methane seas and eternal storms, ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

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Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is the first ESA mission dedicated to ...

Can’t wait to check out 'The Universe in 3D Catastrophes That Changed the Planets' on any device? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent the directed movie can be ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.