One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

In a nutshell Scientists propose that the entire universe might be spinning very slowly (0.002 rotations per billion years), ...

The Case of the Missing Matter "We robustly show that the gas is much more extended than the dark matter" relative to ...

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

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

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

The group’s latest data confirms the universe is 13.8 billion years old ... revealing ancient clouds of gases that form planets and galaxies. The universe was too hot during its first few ...