Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

The carbon monoxide, in particular, was interesting: it bore a powerful resemblance to the carbon monoxide seen in the planet ...

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Seems unintuitive, but the mounting list of lifeless planets might be exactly what scientists need to figure out how common ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

What happens if, after all our searching, we don’t find any signs of life on other planets? A group of scientists led by Dr.

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...