The article characterizes planets in the context of an Indian family, assigning each a distinctive role. The Sun is portrayed ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

The Aquarian new moon on January 29 is an invitation to dip your toes into new experiences, especially when it comes to ...