Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world resembling our own is not just ... Read more The post NASA Just Discovered ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The discovery of Gliese 12 b, a nearby possibly habitable exoplanet, is a thrilling development in the quest to find Earth-like planets and, potentially, extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery is published in Nature Astronomy.

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth ...

The discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy on June 3, “represents a critical step for China’s scientific community in the quest to find a second Earth,” Wang Xiaobin, a member of the ...

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, ...