Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so ...

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the edge of our solar system.

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and ... common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...