It's no secret that science fiction writers are fond of rooting their imagined alien lifeforms on theoretical desert planets ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Star Wars has inspired real scientists and engineers to explore the realities of things like blowing up the Death Star or finding planets like Jakku. No wonder the franchise has become a teaching ...

Researchers have detected four small exoplanets orbiting closely around Barnard's Star. This illustration shows ... Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals -- the tiny building blocks of planets -- formed across wide regions of a young star's disk ... for other Earth-like planets.

The model simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf, allowing the team to measure how much energy the world received as its dead star cooled and the habitable zone it sat in shrank.

Each planet will reportedly be as big as ‘two zones’ from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Ubisoft’s open-world game Star Wars Outlaws is set in space, like Starfield, and features multiple planets, like ...

Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals—the tiny building blocks of planets—formed across wide regions of a young star's disk ... for other Earth-like planets.