There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...