A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have found chemical fingerprints on the exoplanet K2-18b, found 120 ...

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

Astronomers announced that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...