A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a celestial smirk near the horizon.

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere ...

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

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

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...