Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Humanity has been leaking radio noise into the cosmos for just over a century, and those signals now form a vast, expanding ...

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Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

It’s strange to think that something as ordinary as summer heat or winter cold traces back to a moment of utter chaos ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

T Cha is no ordinary young, Sun-like star. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk, the dense, rotating structure of gas and ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

For years, director James Cameron has used the visually epic sci-fi “Avatar” films to hold a mirror to our own tendencies and the idea that humankind has long been a plague destroying our planet.

Planet-forming collisions were once thought to be rare—new observations suggest they may occur far more often than scientists ...