How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

That's the result of Venus moving through one of the signs it's right at home in: Taurus, the fixed earth sign. But you can ...

The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by ...

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

New computer models suggested that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) could get better radar data if it rolled farther ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...