A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Earths, vast underground oceans of molten rock may be quietly doing the work of life’s first line of defense: generating ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...