Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

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 ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

As far as we know, there’s only one place in the universe capable of hosting life: Earth. This fact might suggest that Earth is unique or simply indicate our ignorance, so to quantify the probability ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

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 ...