About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have conditions suitable for life.

New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside special areas called “terminator zones,” according to a ...

The planet orbits a faint red dwarf star and sits in its habitable zone, where liquid water could exist if an atmosphere is ...

Life outside our solar system may be found within just a few years, thanks to the discovery of a new class of super hot, Earth-like planets, according to astronomers from the University of Cambridge.

In June, astronomers reported a disappointing discovery: The James Webb Space Telescope failed to find a thick atmosphere around the rocky planet TRAPPIST-1 C, an exoplanet in one of the most ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

ALTHOUGH climate is chiefly a matter of winds, ocean currents, sunshine, rains, and snow, it involves also the responses of plants and animals to these physical factors. Plants grow on the ...

Viewers of Life on Our Planet Season 1 are wondering how many episodes are in the series and when each new episode comes out. This documentary series follows the four-billion-year journey on Earth of ...