When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Huge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, we've known that planets in ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect starlight, and nobody does it better than LTT9779b. This world reflects 80 ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

The birth of the universe has been a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries. In a groundbreaking study published ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recently released study suggested that our universe started with two big bangs not just one. For decades scientists have been struggling to explain the creation of two things: ...