It was one of humanity’s greater vanities that we ever questioned whether there are any planets in the universe beyond the eight in our little solar system. Our sun is a perfectly ordinary star, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than ...

Astronomers have detected signs of complex organic molecules, the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it, in a planet-forming disk around a distant star. The findings imply that the ...