A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Located some 620 light-years away in the Chamaeleon constellation, scientists recorded Cha 1107-7626 accreting six to eight ...

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

Although the planet had been discovered only 40 years earlier, Bouvard tracked down 130 years of serendipitous observations of Uranus — times when some astronomer charted a star that turned out to ...