Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located ...

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 newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a coronal mass ejection exploding from a star other than our Sun.

The 13th session of the Shanghai Master Forum on Science was held at Fudan University on Monday, featuring a captivating ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.