Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do? UCLA and ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study. A combination of cosmic processes shapes the ...

No Man's Sky is one of the most comprehensive games out there when playing in the sci-fi genre. With its recent DLC Origins, players are not only given more upgrades to certain aspects of the game ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

While scientists continue to find out new things about the celestial objects in our own solar system, they also monitor astronomical bodies that exist beyond. Case in point: Astronomers have been ...

With all due respect to Chani and the rest of the Fremen who find beauty in the sands of Arrakis, not all single-biome planets are created equally. Frank Herbert’s Dune may have come first (and Isaac ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...