Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there are.

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can ...

“Our hope with this type of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence,” Balmer said.

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other exoplanetary systems," William Balmer, an astronomer at the Johns Hopkins ...