In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...