At the heart of some of the oldest rocks in the Earth's crust, an international team has identified a chemical signature ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

— -- 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 ...

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

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

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...