Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

When it comes to planets in our Solar System's habitable zone, one world is too close to the Sun, another is too far and ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Of all the extrasolar planetary systems detected by astronomers in recent years, the star 47 Ursae Majoris and its known companions, two Jupiter-sized planets, is the one that most closely resembles ...

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...