Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven new Earth-like planets in our galaxy. This finding expands ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said.

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...