American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since April 2024 ...

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...