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

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Mankind has been looking at the stars for millennia, wondering if were alone in the universe. We now have the best proof that ...

Stargazers across the globe are in for a treat as a rare triple planetary conjunction is set to light up the skies with a ...

Evidence of biological activity outside the solar system can potentially change the way the night sky is fundamentally perceived, from seeing it as a physical, inanimate sky to thinking of it as a ...