Astronomers say they have discovered "the strongest evidence yet" of life on a distant planet, although, they stress that more research is needed. Chief astronomer and planetarium director of the ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft flew by outer planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, revealing a huge amount of information about their moons and kicking off a serious search for life there. "We have lots of ...

Most space games allow players to explore alien planets, and the more ambitious ... The journey is what really matters in these, and outer space is inherently the most unpredictable setting ...

"The Huygens descent and landing represented a major breakthrough in our exploration of Titan as well as the first soft landing on an outer-planet moon," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist ...

With a mass 7.7 times that of Earth, it is the densest well-characterized planet of its kind discovered to date. K2-360 c: A larger outer planet at least 15 times more massive than Earth, orbiting ...