Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

Looking up reveals nature’s skylight, framing Arizona blue against fiery red stone in perfect composition. Photo credit: ...

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located just 25 light-years away.

GJ 3378b could be just large enough and just close enough to its star to host life (Picture: Nasa) Aliens could call a planet about a 282 million-year drive away home, scientists say. GJ 3378b is an ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

A newly discovered and potentially habitable exoplanet scientists are calling Earth’s “next-door neighbor” could be the next ...