The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A report by German aerospace engineers questions whether SpaceX's Starship could take humans to Mars before the decade is out ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Earth" planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet—a planet ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...