Today, let's talk about something truly astonishing in the universe! Recent research suggests that the "habitable zone" in the Milky Way has expanded, with up to 100 million planets potentially ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

A new Big Bang model does away with speculative elements, putting gravitational waves at the forefront of the creation of ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

When you think of a planet, you probably think of one of the planets in our own solar system, like Earth, Jupiter, or Mars. Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been like those in our solar ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

Brown dwarfs, between about 13-80 Jupiter masses, will fuse deuterium+deuterium into helium-3 or tritium, remaining at the same approximate size as Jupiter but achieving much greater masses. If a star ...