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

New research reveals Earth is a cosmic lottery winner, forming at the perfect time with heavy elements from dead stars while ...

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

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

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.

A University of Arizona-led team has used a camera orbiting Mars to capture the closest images yet of a rare interstellar ...

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

High-tech satellites orbiting thousands of miles above our planet are now delivering some of the most detailed and timely ...

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

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...