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

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

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? Trudeau’s top lieutenant resigns ...

Keep your eyes on the sky this upcoming year for a chance to spot breathtaking meteor showers, a special view of Saturn and a ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Its effects, as well as being more consequential for our society, are difficult to understand due to outstanding problems in ...

However, planets may not be necessary for life ... habitable conditions between 1 and 5 astronomical units in the solar system," they write. "To understand the constraints on life beyond Earth ...

Despite the system being the best-studied planetary system outside of our own solar system, detecting atmospheres on its planets has proven challenging. That is the result of the unusual ...

However, gravitational forces diminish with distance. That is, the destruction of distant stars or planets outside our solar system or galaxy would have an unnoticeable effect on earth.

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.