(Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images) Life on Earth, beginning with simple microorganisms that evolved and diversified into the ...

Life 2.0 telescope array proposes 900 mass-produced one-meter satellites with chip-scale spectrographs to collect as much ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have discovered an Earth-mass planet very close ...

Earth has experienced five mass extinctions throughout its history, with the most famous being the Chicxulub asteroid that ...

While there is a total solar eclipse over parts of Europe, that “has no unusual impact on Earth’s gravity,” the space agency ...

Using the radial velocity (RV) method, an international team of astronomers has discovered two new exoplanets transiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as GJ 1002. The newfound alien worlds have masses ...

A newly discovered exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of life. Analyses by a team led by astronomer Diana Kossakowski of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy describe a planet that orbits ...

Earth and Mars in comparison. Mars has only about 10.7 percent of earth's mass but is roughly half its radius. Mars remains a true puzzle, but not for the reasons most people would think. Sure, ...

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits ...

Planets that go rogue orbit no star. They wander the vacuum of space alone, having been kicked out of their star systems by gravitational interactions with other planets and stars. Nobody really knows ...