The Earth’s magnetic field is vital for life – without it, the Sun’s radiation would sterilize the planet. But a new study ...

However, most or all of those ISOs likely began life as comets around other stars, before an encounter with a Jupiter-sized planet, or perhaps a fly-by star, ejected them into interstellar space.

A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, ...

‘Oumuamua is a water-rich planetesimal, which lost hydrogen from its surface as it headed through our Solar System. "A comet traveling through the interstellar medium basically is getting cooked ...

At the same time, most interstellar dust particles are covered with water-containing molecular ... The question of whether the first biomolecules on our planet are of terrestrial or ...

This can depend on a host of factors, like the makeup of the planet's atmosphere, its distance to its parent star, and the abundance of water on the surface. Recent research suggests that water ...

Fortunately, the sun is about 93 million miles from Earth. Our planet is in the Goldilocks Zone. That’s the distance from the ...

Water must be broken down during amino acid polymerization, which requires a lot of energy. However, in the extreme cold of the interstellar ... blocks of life on our planet.

There's probably an interstellar object passing through the solar system right now—we just haven't spotted it." But why do astrophysicists like Lintott study these objects? "They are our only ...

In the year 3021, on a space station somewhere between Mars and Jupiter in the Milky Way, 8-year-old Ella Ryder sets out with her friends on exciting adventures of discovery. Loading... ABC iview Home ...

Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” will be re-released ... must travel to the far reaches of space to find a new planet for humankind to colonize. Paramount Pictures announced the re-release ...