On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Named Gliese 12 b, the planet orbits a hot, red star in a system roughly 40 light-years from Earth. Remarkably, the exoplanet appears to have a width 1.1 times that of Earth, giving it similar ...

While the chance of Earth being ejected is low, this research highlights the dynamic nature of our cosmic environment and the subtle threats to our planet's long-term stability.

Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the star-forming region of Ophiuchus.

WASHINGTON: The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy — one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of ...

Norwood's health director said the town did not have anything to do with the Walpole Street gym's closure. She thinks Planet Fitness initially used a poor choice of words referencing a health ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.