Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

A planetary alignment happens when several planets appear in a line from Earth’s point of view. Mercury will join Venus, Mars ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.