Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with a profound question known as the Fermi Paradox: if the galaxy is teeming with the ...

(CNN)-- From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe. Her ears are 42 large and sophisticated radio telescopes, spread across several acres, that scan the ...

The oldest known life on Earth is 4.2 billion years old.

On one side, a groundbreaking new theory has emerged, suggesting that we need "external assistance" to resolve the flaws in the old . On the other side, a stunning discovery just next door to our ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

Uranus's moons — what is unique about each moon and why do they orbit at a tilt?

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

In the late 1980s, scientists realized they could understand the interior properties of the sun by observing the sound waves ...