Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

It calls for immediate global action, warning that ocean acidification and other environmental breaches risk irreversible ...

Theorised by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais back in 1978, Kessler syndrome warns that objects orbiting Earth in close proximity to the planet will become so crowded that a chain ...

On some, whipping winds send a rain of glass flying sideways; others have a core of carbon compressed into diamond. Take a ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

Rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 is swallowing gas and dust at roughly six billion tons each second, the fastest planetary growth ...

Clues hidden in Martian rock suggest the red planet may have once hosted an ocean. Earth’s own ancient rivers are helping scientists uncover its watery past. Billions of years ago, water once coursed ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Webb Telescope spots a carbon-rich disk around a distant planet, CT Cha b, offering rare clues to how moons may form.

Large rivers once flowed on Mars and emptied into an ocean before the planet's surface dried up billions of years ago.