Which solar system model is best? For as long as humans could look up at the night sky, we’ve been fascinated with the stars. How far away are they? Where did they come from? What secrets do they hide ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

In this artistic rendering, different kinds of suns are shown as they interact with various Earth-like surfaces in distant solar systems. The combinations create an array of climates. Thus, in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e may ...

A planet orbiting our closest neighboring star "may well" have a climate right for alien life to emerge, a new scientific model indicates. Scientists discovered Proxima b, located 4.2 billion light ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...