Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

Innovators are trying to convert waste plastic to fuel. Here's why that matters to us, the planet, and the circular economy.

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...