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New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star. The newfound alien world, designated ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...