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 ...

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

In a new study, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered in simulations that a small body under half the size of the Earth would be able to cool a moon's subsurface ocean for more than ...

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

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

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 ...

Water worlds could be surprisingly common in our galaxy — but they probably don’t look like you expect. If we find evidence of life on alien worlds, it will probably be on a planet somewhere between ...

Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that ...

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 ...