Among the handful of exoplanets flagged as highly “Earth-like,” one stands out for its potential to support life — yet ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Scientists detect heavy water in a planet-forming disk for the first time, revealing ancient cosmic origins. Read the full ...

A new theory from a scientist working with NASA, raises a surprising question about extraterrestrial life and why they might ...

Did NASA find another Earth? Scientists look to the sky to find a copy of our planet, and some experts think they may have ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

A bronze, temple-shaped box dating back over 1,700 years was discovered in central Romania, officials with the Turda History ...