Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

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 ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

As far as we know, there’s only one place in the universe capable of hosting life: Earth. This fact might suggest that Earth is unique or simply indicate our ignorance, so to quantify the probability ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Brown dwarfs, between about 13-80 Jupiter masses, will fuse deuterium+deuterium into helium-3 or tritium, remaining at the same approximate size as Jupiter but achieving much greater masses. If a star ...