Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

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How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The event, titled "Out of This World," will feature the Massapequa Philharmonic performing composer Gustav Holst's masterwork ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

Not all exoplanets are frozen rocks or burning gas giants—some might just be livable. Here are 16 worlds ranked by how ...

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

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...