When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

(That's a 1 followed by 23 zeroes.) With such a humongous number of planets, people often argue that there must be at least one other planet with life somewhere in the universe. Astronomers still ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them challenge everything we know ...

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

In the distant future—about six billion or seven billion years hence—the sun will start to die, swelling up into a bloated red giant. In a span of several hundred million years it will blow away its ...

The beauty about The Expanse is its relatability. Its themes that hit close to home, especially political themes. Unlike other sci-fi properties that see the future of Earth as a bright, egalitarian ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he ...