The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

It's believed to account for roughly 85% of the universe's mass, yet no telescope or sensor on Earth has been able to track ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...