New simulations suggest Earthlike planets may be much more typical than previously thought whereas water worlds may not.

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet orbiting a faint star 40 light-years from home. Scientists are homing in ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

There had to be few things on the entire planet Friday night that felt better than the home run hit by Elly De La Cruz for the Cincinnati Reds. The incredibly talented star had not homered since July ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy by the office of Mississippi’s state medical examiner concluded that a Black student found ...

If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each ...

New research shows how our warming world contributed to dangerous summer heat that impacted several million people in the U.S ...