How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Sci-fi movie planets for 'Avatar' fans to visit if 'Fire and Ash's return to Pandora has them longing for more vibrant worlds ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.