An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

New molecules discovered on a faraway exoplanet have given scientists the “strongest evidence yet" that life may exist beyond ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have provided the strongest indications yet of potential life beyond our solar ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...