"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the chances of finding life beyond Earth.

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...