At just over 4 light-years away, Proxima Centauri is home to an exoplanet that tantalizes astronomers with its potential. Could this be our next destination?

Thus, any moon of these circumbinary planets that ... though far outside of our sun's habitable zone. If worlds like these exist within our own solar system, then similar exomoons could orbit ...

There’s even an outside chance that over timescales of hundreds of millions of years, tiny Mercury may one day be driven in the Sun. The orbits of the planets in our solar system are chaotic ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) illustration Scientists say they've found the nearest temperate Earth-size world to date: Gliese 12 b, a so-called exo-Venus, meaning a rocky planet outside the solar system ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars ... Pictor’s original name was Equuleus Pictoris, meaning “the painter’s easel.” It’s now known by ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

To examine data beamed back via their Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - a space telescope that looks for planets outside of our solar system ... It's name? TOI 1338 b.