University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think A false-colour depiction of the Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious ... in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, which orbits ...

“This the strongest evidence to date for a biological activity beyond the solar system,” says lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in ...

A team of astronomers made worldwide headlines last night with claims that they had found the “strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the Solar System”. The scientists say that a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Trump budget would slash NASA funds How to catch the Eta Aquarid ...

"Usually when we build our numerical models ... in orbits that take longer than 200 years to circle the Sun. "Long-period comets spend most of their lives so far away from the solar system ...

Not only does this system ... solar system, including worlds so light they can be compared to marshmallows, worlds so hot they rain liquid metal or glass, and now, a world that weirdly orbits ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

“We’re talking about a wholesale dismantling of NASA’s scientific fleet and the pipeline ... which holds clues to the early evolution of the Solar System and has tantalizing, perhaps life ...

An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now astronomers have determined what 2024 YR4 is made of, what it looks like, and the unexpected place in the Solar System that ...