Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

TIFF: Tasha Van Zandt's film about pioneering oceanographer and bioluminescence obsessive Dr. Edith Widder feels a little ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

King Charles III is a lifelong environmentalist. Donald Trump is unraveling global efforts to combat climate change. Insiders expect the king to have a second go at swaying the president when the two ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

On Earth, it took over 3 billion years for intelligent life to evolve. The planet went from having at least 6 percent carbon ...