An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

As atmospheric observations of exoplanets become increasingly precise, it is more important than ever to correctly account ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...