As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

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

New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and ...