The Teeming Universe explores scientifically inspired alien ecosystems across radically different planets. One frozen world ...

Alien worlds take center stage in an extraordinary voyage across the Milky Way, revealing planets far stranger than anything ...

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

WE THINK of stars as having just one shot at forging planets – a narrow window when the infant stars are surrounded by a disc of dust and gas. Now it seems paired stars may regularly spawn two or even ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of humanity's greatest gifts to itself, revealing our cosmic surrounds like never before. The telescope's revolutionary infrared sensitivity makes it ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...