Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

As a partial solar eclipse took place across the Northern Hemisphere, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to try to get ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

“A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear to ... Daniel Kirkwood Chair in Astronomy at Indiana University ...

a planet outside of our solar system, 124 light years away from Earth. Like Earth, this planet orbits its star in the habitable zone—an area around a star where planets with liquid water on ...

open image in gallery The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The five planets ...

There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b ... of possible biological activity outside the solar system,” he told a press conference.