Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

This video reacts to the Kurzgesagt episode about aliens under the ice and the possibility of life on rogue planets drifting through space. It explains how frozen worlds hidden oceans and internal ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have ...

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Launched in 2019, the ESA mission will measure the size and density of hundreds of known exoplanets orbiting bright stars.