Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

Scientists have detected what they say is the “strongest evidence yet” for the existence of extraterrestrial life, found on a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18b, a planet outside our solar system.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

What Would It Be Like? Venture into the icy depths of our solar system and explore the unique features of a distant planet.

and so is young compared to our solar system, which has existed for 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, the planets of HR 8799 emit large amounts of infrared light.

Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what ...

K2-18 b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth and with a diameter of about 2.6 times as large as our planet. It orbits in the ...

“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...