Artist's impression: Kepler has identified many exoplanets but few are within their star's "Goldilocks zone" One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of "most ...

Voyager 1 is on a journey that will outlast civilizations, outlive the Sun’s familiar neighborhood, and eventually drift into ...

AT LAST we are seeing big rewards in the hunt for “super-Earths” – rocky alien worlds a few times more massive than our own. That was the verdict from a landmark meeting of astronomers last week which ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system and are searching the atmospheres ...

A NASA team is advancing a bold new proposal to search for alien worlds by staging an artificial eclipse in space, positioning a huge ‘starshade’ about 175,000 kilometres above Earths. Razor ...