"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ... the subtle shapes of orbits of Earth-size planets around other stars." The team's research was published on ...

No Man’s Sky already lets players dig deep into the terrain of its near-infinite universe of planets, but now there ... dig up the “skeletal remains of alien creatures.” ...

This system has long intrigued astronomers studying planet formation ... specific gases and other atmospheric details. The newly detected carbon dioxide in one of the planets, HR 8799 e, shows ...

Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

ALIEN life could be hiding away on the vast ocean of a nearby moon. Scientists say there’s a chance that a “small population” ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system.