Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets ... with the same side of the planet facing the star at all times. On top of that, WASP ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

which makes extracting the signals of their young planets all the more difficult." "Our analysis focuses on planets with short orbits [12 days]," Rachel Fernandes, a post-doctoral researcher at ...

“I was moved that the universe could be described in numbers ... Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish. Batalha was the one ...

Yet the very same objects that gave this planet ... size of the universe were to remain unchanged, the mutual gravitational attraction among galaxies eventually would cause all of them to merge ...

“This could be the tipping point, where suddenly the fundamental question of whether we’re alone in the universe is one we’re capable of answering.” More news about our planet: Sign up for ...