At first, the universe was like a hot stew. Instead of carrots and potatoes, it had particles. As the soupy universe cooled, ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M.

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

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Computer simulations suggest NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could detect Earth-like exomoons around gas giant exoplanets through reflected starlight and lunar eclipses.

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 ...

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

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.