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 ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A new ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor just six light-years away. Using ultra-sensitive instruments, scientists ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

THE Earth’s ocean could one day turn purple – and scientists say it used to be a totally different colour. The Earth’s seas ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the search for another Earth. A team from the University of Bern and the Swiss ...

Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...