A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...

WASHINGTON: The young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine in a ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

The research detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living organisms ...

Venus and Saturn will shine brightly, easily visible to the naked eye, but if you have a backyard telescope or binoculars, ...

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.