New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

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

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe ...

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

NASA’s TESS has uncovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting twin suns, defying long-held beliefs that binary systems are too ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...