When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope discovered a system of seven "sweltering" planets surrounding a star that's hotter than our own sun. According ...

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the early ...

NASA has plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the near future. Next year, four astronauts will orbit the moon. "We don't need to go back to the moon just for the moon. We're going back ...

Because white dwarfs are much smaller than our Sun, an Earth-sized planet that crossed in front of it would block more of its light, which should make these planets easier to spot. So astronomer Eric ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...