Scientists have discovered a new planet, Enaiposha, that defies existing planetary classifications. Found 47 light-years away ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and most promising candidates for studying Earth-like atmospheres. The planet, ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...