Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

I recall as a child lying on the grass at night, gazing up at the stars, and wondering if any of those distant suns had planets orbiting nearby. I was not ...

Astronomers have discovered new evidence that suggests the possibility of an unknown planet in our solar system's farthest reaches. The study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

London: From tentative evidence of habitable planets to the eyebrow-raising suggestion an interstellar comet might not be what it seems, the possibility of life beyond our solar system has long ...

It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie from the 1950s - a giant rogue planet, moving through the galaxy at a record-breaking speed, consuming vast quantities of dust and gas . But this isn ...