A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

and the outer planet seven days to circulate around it. This would lead one to assume that the worlds are highly likely to be too hot to harbor life since they are much closer to their star compared ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at the heart of the planet. But new research has revealed something much more ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

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 ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

Proctor/J. Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar neighbors, a new study reveals. The rocky alien worlds are close ...

Recent studies show that the most common type of planets in our galaxy, those between the sizes of Earth and Neptune ... as the planet cools down, in the outer regions of the atmosphere, clouds ...