The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

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

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

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

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

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

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

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

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

When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...

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