Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

Rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 is swallowing gas and dust at roughly six billion tons each second, the fastest planetary growth ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

CHA 1107-7626 is 5-10 times larger than Jupiter and is rocketing through our galaxy roughly 620 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

The article highlights the paradox of widespread belief in the abundance of life in the universe juxtaposed with humanity's singular known example on a planet facing rapid climate change. It ...