When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals an impressive phenomenon concerning ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Planetary retrograde is an apparent backward motion as seen from Earth, creating the illusion of planets moving in reverse ...

NASA recently discovered that a red planet is helplessly crying out for help as it faces scorching heat that's causing it to ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...