There's a big diamond in the sky made by connecting the stars Arcturus, Spica, Denebola and Cor Caroli. Once found, you can ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

It's generally harder to detect planets orbiting farther from their stars, but based on this study, Zang and his colleagues ...

A Tatooine-like ... our Milky Way galaxy — about two-thirds of all stars (and brown dwarfs) are found in binary systems. Yet given the near ubiquity of these stellar pairs, very few planets ...

but the new definition of a planet requires the celestial body to have enough gravity to clear its orbital path from other bodies. MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole ...