The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star system, which can host potentially-habitable planets ... although our Universe has the right characteristics for life to exist, it is not the ...

Researchers have calculated the chance of intelligent life existing in our universe right now and in ... there is extraterrestrial life on other planets. The likelihood that intelligent life ...

"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...

How the same region of the Universe would look in terms of the ... which can host potentially-habitable planets. Our nearest stellar neighbour, the Alpha Centauri system, includes three stars.