New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

Deep in the cold, dusty spaces between stars where no planets exist and no ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...