If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

If the fabric of the universe is a flat, rubbery sheet, Earth is a pothole that bends the fabric of spacetime into a funnel around it. But what would it be like to overcome Earth’s gravity, lift off ...

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NASA has plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the near future. Next year, four astronauts will orbit the moon. "We don't need to go back to the moon just for the moon. We're going back ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

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, ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star. The ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

"It represents a major step forward in how we think about the search for distant worlds capable of hosting life." Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged ...