Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

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The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is the first ESA mission dedicated to ...

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There are planets in our universe that would give you nightmares. Planets with ice hotter than burning metal, planets that ...

In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact, these ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.