At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

According to the calculations run by Ozaki and Reinhard, the oxygen-rich habitable history of Earth could end up lasting for ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.