NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

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

This would render half the planet too hot for life, the other half too cold. The midline, though, might be temperate enough for life. As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima ...

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers say. The initial discovery confounded marine scientists. It was previously accepted ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

A small satellite, dubbed Pandora, will conclude whether 20 other planets is capable of creating alien life. It is aiming to examine each exoplanet a total of 10 times. "Although smaller and less ...