Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get started on planets throughout a solar system. The discovery of ...

IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside ...

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos.

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Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet status, astronomers believe a real Planet Nine exists in the solar system ...

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

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In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing that Elon Musk’s dream is doomed to fail.

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s ...

In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme accuracy.

Detecting such a young planet is exceptionally rare, as they are often hidden by swirling debris disks around their host suns ...