A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Scientists have detected possible biosignature gases in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b -- gases produced only by life on ...

Let’s talk space rocks, folks. The placement and movement of planets and constellations in the birth chart offer insights ...

Today’s moons, planets, and dwarf planets formed from a proto-planetery disk surrounding ... These rare meteorites, which make up only 0.2 percent of meteorites broadly, provide an incredibly rare ...

No, they’re not Earth 2.0. But they do share something in common with our planet: they’re solid ... As per the report, all four orbit their red dwarf star at very short distances– the ...

The detection of CO 2 offers clues as to how distant ... formation compares to that of a star or brown dwarf, the term given to large gaseous planets that fail to develop into stars.

Researchers have discovered four Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star ... at least one exoplanet orbits Barnard's Star, a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of our Sun.

For over forty years, astronomers have been baffled by X-rays from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula. A white ...

The easiest way to time travel is more simple than you realise - and it doesn't involve any fancy equipment, say scientists.

Lo and behold, the "Instagram effect" would soon dwarf the Lonely Planet effect ... including Murad Osmann (3.2 million) and Jennifer Tuffen (2.6 million), can handily rack up similar numbers ...