Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

Brad, B.A., is a freelance writer in South Florida. His published works can be read on Game Rant, Comic Book Resources, Sportskeeda, SmartScreens, and TheGamer. You'll find him playing video games, ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary migrations that shaped the worlds we know today. While it may seem intuitive that ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

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 ...

'We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to where the sun and planets were forming.' When you purchase through links on ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A quest for life in the cosmos has given astronomer and astrobiologist Dr. Aomawa Shields new perspective on a meaningful life on Earth. The following is an excerpt from Life on Other Planets: A ...