An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major leap in space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...

Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

New and Selected Poems," the former U.S. poet laureate reflects on nature, poetry and the awe she continues to find in both.

For decades, astronomers have wondered whether Earth-like planets are rare gems or commonplace across the stars. Recent ...

A 9,458-square-foot Jupiter Island home once belonging to billionaire Bill Gates is on the market. The home at 100 Harbor Way was listed in April by Susan Hemmes of One Sotheby's International Realty, ...

These objects, often several times the mass of Jupiter, are still embedded in ... exciting is that astronomers have detected ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...