Scientists previously thought the solar system was flying through space at 515,000 mph. It may actually be going three times ...
In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...
From Herschel's star counts to Gaia's precision measurements discover how scientists mapped our solar system within the Milky ...
A nearby star has just been caught throwing a tantrum – and it could rewrite what we know about the potential for life in the ...
Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.
As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its star's habitable zone. Th ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...
Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...