Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Canadian and other researchers have confirmed Saturn as the solar system’s undisputed “moon king," after discovering 128 more ...

these planets still radiate leftover heat from their births, which JWST was able to observe in wavelengths that tease out the specific gases and other atmospheric details. The newly detected ...

Planets of this size are largely unexplored ... Our teams didn’t coordinate with each other at all,” Basant said. “That gives us a lot of assurance that these aren’t phantoms in the ...