An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been found, but only a few stand out as truly Earth-like. These 16 may be the most promising ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...

Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...

As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...

"It represents a major step forward in how we think about the search for distant worlds capable of hosting life." Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged ...

Astronomers have detected an exomoon candidate in orbit around the gas giant exoplanet HD 206893 b. Further studies are ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so hot it glows at more than ...

The top ten most expensive space missions include the USSR/Russian GLONASS mission at the bottom, and the U.S. Apollo space ...