What can the galactic habitable zone (GHZ), galactic regions where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

"Looking up at the night sky, we see not only stars twinkling in their constellations and planets caught mid-orbit but our cosmic family tree. We are here on Earth because billions of years ago the ...

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The galaxy is getting messy: astronomers have found planets that meander around space without neatly orbiting a star. This contradicts everything we learned in our 8th grade science class.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells us how the first galaxies were born and helps us understand how the ...

"If the model holds true, it could mark a new chapter in the way we think about the birth of the universe." A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, ...