Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now within 300 million km of Earth. Discover why NASA and ESA are tracking this ancient ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astronomers have discovered our solar system occupies a rare "safety zone" in the Milky Way, perfectly positioned between the ...

A large proportion of the most common type of planet in the galaxy could be situated in the habitable "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar system, research has found. Astronomers from the University of ...

What can the galactic habitable zone (GHZ), galactic regions where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets ...

Astronomers have created a planet-by-planet guide to our galaxy—detailing a catalog of thousands of exoplanets detected by NASA's Kepler mission. The Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus ...

Complex life may be rare due to many necessary conditions like a stable star and planet. Earth's location in the galaxy minimizes exposure to harmful radiation. Jupiter's gravity may have protected ...

When I was younger, I gazed at the stars at night and wondered how many possessed planets like Earth. Being a Star Trek nerd, I couldn’t help but imagine a universe where stars were fecund and planets ...