In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

This captivating video explores Sedna, one of the most distant and mysterious dwarf planets in our solar system. Discovered in 2003, Sedna orbits the Sun once every 11,400 years, traveling through icy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

Astronomers have discovered new evidence that suggests the possibility of an unknown planet in our solar system's farthest ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

Orbs with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new discoveries, with surprising similarities to fiction, are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7.5 billion km away.