Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has teased a single setting, but its focus on exploring one planet can still be incredibly ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists ...

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

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

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the ...