A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

The Trappist-1 system, just 40 light years from Earth, contains 7 rocky planets—all roughly the size of Earth. Packed tightly within the space between Mercury and the Sun, three of these planets lie ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

Located 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, following the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...

British researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond Earth with the discovery of an ocean-covered planet far beyond our solar system. While studying exoplanet K2-18b, which ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...