Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

New Jersey stargazers will be treated to visual splendor in the night sky this month. February features what scientists call a “planetary parade” with Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin U.S. Spacewalk 92 early Jan. 30. Suni Williams and ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

This raises the tantalizing possibility that we could snap pictures of any aliens lurking there. 'Excitingly, its proximity ...

Comet C/2024 G3’s coma dims post-solar encounter Thermal stress suspected to cause nucleus fractures Observations hint at potential disintegration in progress ...

(NewsNation) — You might want to keep your eyes on the skies for the next couple of months: Six planets will align in January and February. AccuWeather writes that Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus ...