Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

Permadeath's sci-fi sandbox game was showcased as a Steam Daily Deal on November 12—the same day Valve announced the Steam ...

From the frozen edges of our solar system to the blazing light of Alpha Centauri, this episode explores humanity’s first real ...

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe. Some people—myself ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, led by Kevin Wagner, have identified evidence for a potential ...

New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest ...

Astronomers detect doubly deuterated heavy water in a planetary formation disk for the first time ever in a system named V883 ...

A ravenous rogue planet has been caught eating 6 billion tonnes of gas and dust per second. This behaviour blurs the line between planets and stars, suggesting both can form in similar ways. Rogue ...

Alpha Centauri is our nearest neighboring star system at just over four light years away and is made up of three stars. Stars A and B orbit each other while the closest and smallest star C orbits both ...

Manage a factory? Sure thing. Manage a city and its population? Doable. Manage the ecosystem of a newly-formed planet to create and sustain life itself? Sounds ambitious, but heck, I'll try anything ...