NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Explore the groundbreaking discovery of extraterrestrial life signs on exoplanet K2-18 b with chemical evidence from NASA.

Not every large object in space forms part of a solar system ... classified either as “free-floating planets,” which form inside a star system, but are thrown out by the gravitational force ...

An artistic illustration of a hot and volcanic planet at the doorstep of its star ... HD 20782 b is the sole planetary occupant in its solar system. “Something very bad happened,” Kane ...

Graphic illustration by William D ... are icy remnants of the early Solar System. Deflected into orbits closer to the Sun in the region of the giant planets, some become Centaurs, precursors to ...

The star’s flares are much more violent than previously thought, the researchers say, potentially obliterating the planet’s air ... worlds outside the solar system, specifically those closely ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...