The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, and understanding how planets form around them is therefore essential.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

Devon Murray – best known for playing Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter movies – is among a number of guests, which also ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine, an explosive, highly toxic gas. Found in the atmospheres of the gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, phosphine has long been ...

Channel 4 and UKTV have signed a multi-year carriage deal that will see thousands of hours of UKTV’s U programming added to ...

The detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of Wolf 1130C raises questions as to why it’s not more prevalent in other brown dwarfs.

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...