Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Experts spotted a new, young planet with a strange behavior orbiting a dwarf star. It is 10 times bigger than the Earth and ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Planet K2-18b is in the same galaxy as us – the Milky Way – but there are billions to trillions of estimated galaxies in the universe. The academic stressed that we've only sampled a 'tiny ...

Void regions in space, like the Eridanus supervoid, contain far less matter than the universe’s average ... making this planet a deadly place with horizontal glass rain. A new study suggests ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be able to tell us how common life is in the universe — even if the ...

According to reports, scientists from NASA are preparing to make an important announcement after the James Webb Space ...

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 ...