Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

From a sliver of a coastal island, a multistage rocket is set to blast off into the Florida sky tonight, on a quest to answer one of astronomy's great mysteries: Are there other planets like Earth out ...

Extra-solar planets are among the most thrilling discoveries of our age. Just today, scientists using Spitzer space telescope data announced the first detection of infrared light from an extra-solar ...

“Cloudy for the morning, turning to clear with scorching heat in the afternoon.” While this might describe a typical late-summer day in many places on Earth, it may also apply to planets outside our ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...

The team identified planets around three stars, including TOI-5799c, which may have an atmosphere and conditions suitable for liquid water.

For four years, the Kepler space telescope was fixated on one sector of the cosmos. It stared unblinkingly at the Cygnus constellation, trying to detect the slightest variation in star luminance. UBC ...