A special exoplanet has been discovered in space ... These characteristics are typically associated with the planet Venus and other similar gas-rich planets, but the significance of the gas ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Star Wars is a vast and wonderful universe that continues ... Corellia is a temperate planet with many jungles and forests.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

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

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround ...

People who look up at the night sky to the south will be able to see planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with their naked eye Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

“I was moved that the universe could be described in numbers ... Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish. Batalha was the one ...

A theoretically simple piece of technology that might have huge implications, as it may prove once and for all that Earth does not hold the only life forms in the Universe. Present-day telescopes ...

The universe began with a vast explosion that ... A vast disk of gas and debris that swirled around this new star coalesced into planets, moons, and asteroids. The image on the left, from the ...