From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

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

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

Saturn is known for its iconic rings, but it should also probably be known for its moons. The ringed world was already the record holder for the most natural satellites of any planet in the Solar ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

A new study conducted with data from the Cassini spacecraft shows that Saturn's moon Enceladus has the right ingredients for ...

When it comes to habitable places in our solar system, the tiny moons of Saturn don’t seem likely candidates. Yet time and time again, they’ve proven themselves to be exciting places for life. Europa, ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...