The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Only after that could rocky planets form, and by extension, habitable planets. That’s been axiomatic in astronomy.

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

The construction of a satellite that will orbit the Earth, has now been completed and it will help probe exoplanets.

Aliens could be in the realms of possibility yet as scientists have made an astounding 85 new discoveries which they say ...

If you get the question in Trivial Pursuit “how many plantes are there in the Solar System?”, depending on when you went to school or how old the version is, there’s a fair chance of giving ...

The common problem in the world today is we have millionaires and billionaires who have rented, leased and bought politicians ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...