In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news that signs of a gas, which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

the spectroscope comes in to corroborate it by showing that not only in our solar system, but in the sidereal universe as well, substantially the same elements exist. The sun, as well as the earth ...

A giant planet 124 light years from Earth has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...

Since its discovery in 1930, until 2006, Pluto was counted as the ninth planet in the solar system. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a ‘dwarf planet’, and our ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." ...

MADDIE: There are a lot of stars in our universe. And the sun is a star that gives out heat and light. The sun is at the centre of the solar system. The solar system is the name we use to describe ...