New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

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

For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

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

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...

A group of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has helped discover a new mineral on Mars with implications ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...