The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The system is called ...

The new study modeled a rocky planet through the course of its molten formation and cooling over hundreds of millions of years into a solid terrestrial planet. Results showed that hydrogen or other ...

While such organisms may or may not exist in the universe, the research has important implications for future human endeavors ...

Venus is the most misunderstood planet in our solar system. ESA's Envision mission seeks to uncover its climate, history, and possibly its past habitability.

The interval of bombardment is thought to have shaped the terrestrial planets and moons, their atmospheres and possibly even the onset of life. In this web focus, we present research papers ...