A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

Space mission is on it way there to find ET and experts agree the far off is the most likely spot in the Solar System ...

The search for life beyond Earth has generally focused on places that are as much like our home as possible. That’s why the Kepler space mission has gotten headline after headline after headline in ...

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan may instead hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have pinpointed what appears to be the first moon detected outside our solar system, a large gaseous world the size of Neptune that is unlike any other known moon ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...