Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the four space telescopes of the LIFE mission reflecting light towards ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...

For centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other worlds existed beyond those in our own cosmic backyard, and we imagined that if other planetary ...

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the early ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' ...