Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

Scientists have just revealed an incredible "breakthrough" discovery of four Earth-like planets orbiting one of our closest ...

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The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...