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, ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

While Planet Y has been not yet been directly observed, unexpected inclinations found in the orbits of roughly 50 distant ...

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 ...

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws Rory McIlroy blasts ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...