When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Planets are about as scarce as they can be in our summer evening sky. Earth is the only one that’s visible as darkness falls. Just look down instead of up. All of the major planets that are visible to ...

The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical?

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recently released study suggested that our universe started with two big bangs not just one. For decades scientists have been struggling to explain the creation of two things: ...