The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

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"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Credit: Astrobiology Center K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An ...

For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...