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 ...

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

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment. UCR astrophysicist ...

"To understand life we must go back to the beginning." Netflix has unveiled a first look teaser trailer for another new prehistoric adventure series - this one called Life on Our Planet. Not to be ...