Scientists at Durham University are helping to develop a new type of camera intended to help search for life on distant ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

Scientists think there may be a ninth planet hiding in the distant reaches of the solar system — and a new telescope could finally prove its existence. | Credit: Nicholas Forder for Live Science Deep ...

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

Newton, astronomers have seen a powerful explosion of plasma erupting from a distant star for the first time. We have seen ...

The NEID spectrometer, one of the most precise instruments for detecting planets, sits atop the WIYN Observatory, a 3.5-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in southern Arizona.

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

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There are plenty of other stars. There are plenty of planets around those stars. The challenge—for Earthlings, at least—is finding planets that are just the right size and distance from the stars to ...

Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success. However, we may finally be on the cusp of finding it, experts say.