Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Rogue planets do not orbit around a star, but instead wander through the galaxy aimlessly. NASA estimates there are billions ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning jewel—a planet around a tiny red dwarf star that may have the right conditions to ...

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...