NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

ALIENS might be lurking on a far-off ocean planet in an “astounding” discovery, Britain’s brainiest scientists have told The ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

In an astonishing announcement, astronomers claim to have detected the most promising “hints” of potential life on a planet ...