The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small, cool M-dwarfs—the kind astronomers often look to when searching for ...

A new paper from Harvard's sometimes controversial physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that if we want to find advanced alien life, "black hole moons" may be the object to search for. Finding advanced ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead of one. This radical idea not only challenges our understanding of the ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...