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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Huge, red "super-Jupiter" exoplanet orbits its star. Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

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Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the early ...

There are planets in our universe that would give you nightmares. Planets with ice hotter than burning metal, planets that ...

The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are essential. Phosphorus is vital for the formation of DNA and RNA, which store ...