An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed a planet almost identical to Earth — Kepler-452b, orbiting a Sun-like star 1,400 light years away. It wasn’t just a discovery; it was proof that worlds ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.

The discovery was confirmed by the Minor Planet Center, the world’s official authority for verifying new asteroid findings ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...