Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has teased a single setting, but its focus on exploring one planet can still be incredibly ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns ... the same way the moon is to Earth — but perhaps its biggest eccentric trait is that it is slightly larger than ...

“I really like big questions,” he said. “It's amazing to me that a person can say something new about the universe after working on it for only a few years.” Darling explained that the universe has a ...

Undersea detectors anchored deep in the Mediterranean Sea found an ultra-high-energy neutrino, a particle that opens a new window onto the cosmos.

The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe, with darkness offering dazzling spectacles of cosmic ...

When two objects share a quantum state, their behaviour becomes mysteriously linked. If you measure one object, the state of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ... travel around its equator six times faster than the planet’s rotation speed. Observations from the European ...