The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is leading a mission to seek the elements necessary for life on exoplanets in far-away ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system's ...

Pandora Mission will attempt to capture the atmospheric conditions of 20 planets as they eclipse their respective suns, an ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...