Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than ...

Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building bodies. The structures often resemble our asteroid and Kuiper belts, hinting ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new ...

China scaled fastest and cut costs, the U.S. wrestled with policy volatility but strong capital, and Europe built structure ...

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

Pluribus Episode 8 reveals the hive mind’s master plan, and it may have started long before the signal from Kepler-22b.

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...