In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

Strongest sign found yet of alien life by scientists investigating distant ocean-covered planet - Scientists have found gases ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Planet 124 light-years from Earth could be ‘teeming with alien life’ - Researchers say exoplanet K2-18b offers the strongest ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

Q: Why do the planets all orbit the Sun in the same plane? —Randi Eldevik | Stillwater, Oklahoma Because of the way the Sun formed, explains David DeVorkin, a senior curator in the space history ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

But our awareness of this conflict shouldn’t become so normal that, to borrow one general’s valediction, it fades away. Infographic by Matthew Twombly Research by David Lovett By one count ...