Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Rogue planets do not orbit around a star, but instead wander through the galaxy aimlessly. NASA estimates there are billions ...

Astronomers discover 2025 SC79, the solar system's second-fastest asteroid, hiding in the Sun's glare. Learn why these ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

Although the planet had been discovered only 40 years earlier, Bouvard tracked down 130 years of serendipitous observations of Uranus — times when some astronomer charted a star that turned out to ...