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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system.

The major objects in our solar system orbit along the plane of the ecliptic, plus or minus few degrees, and it turns out most ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we’re still teasing out clues ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...