Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

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About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us understand how many Earth-like planets there are, too.

2023 was a banner year in science. New views of our universe, breakthroughs in disease research and cures, the solution to a decades-old math problem and interstellar absorption are only the tip of ...

Badlands trailer has hit ahead of the movie's release, showing off the dangerous planet of Kalisk in all its glory.

The universe is vast — possibly even infinite — and in the scheme of things, our planet is tiny. Even in our own solar system, Earth is dwarfed by gas giants like Jupiter. But are there bigger planets ...

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 ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.