When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

The search for alien life is something that has gripped the world for decades. While telescopes point up at the sky and scan ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

Maverick astrophysicist Dr Avi Loeb has continued to put forward his claim that 3I/ATLAS looks like more than just a lump of ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first detected in July, sparking a flurry of interest among scientists and in amateur astronomy circles.

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...