The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

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Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

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 ...

Mario Livio, bestselling astrophysicist, and Jack Szostak, Nobel Prize winner, join forces to discover how the universe breathed life into matter and if it has occurred beyond Earth. "If a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most definitely don’t Shi En Kim - Reporter An artist’s impression of ten hot ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...