New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Venus is not even close to being hospitable to life. But that's not the end of the story. This planet has by ...

In approximately five billion years, as the Sun transforms into a red giant, it will engulf Earth. However, a new study ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

The tiny pebbles left over from a star's formation fed the growth of one of the strangest, wildest worlds humanity has ever ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own ...

The exoplanet Wasp-121b orbits its star in a very close orbit. However, it originated much further away, as researchers have ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...