Scientists discovered first-of-its-kind evidence of a possible second-generation planet around a white dwarf star some 270 ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS ...

After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

ZME Science. For years, astronomers have wondered whether another huge planet is lurking unseen in the cold darkness beyond ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

An alien radio signal from K2-155 d? Are there any alien civilizations out there? For several decades, scientists have been searching for evidence that they exist. That effort is collectively known as ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

One of Saturn's icy moons could harbour life in its vast underground ocean, according to new shocking findings from studies that could upend our search for aliens. It has long been known that ...

The new exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is the youngest ever discovered, still forming in a cloud of debris around a young star just 450 light-years from Earth ...