Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees ...

All five hour-long episodes of "Solar System" are available to stream now via BBC iPlayer in the UK (valid TV Licence ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf star about 4,000 light-years away. This discovery ...

Now, a new analysis has revealed that this extra-puffy 'popcorn' planet has an asymmetrical atmosphere, with significant ...

Researchers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as Barnard’s Star, which is about 6 light years away ...

Welcome back! In the previous installment, we examined the abundance of red dwarf stars in our galaxy and the surprising ...

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...

Iceland’s glaciers and frozen lakes stood in for Saturn’s moon Eceladus, helped to recreate the Dwarf planet, Ceres, as it was 4.5 billion years ago and allowed us to journey to the surface of ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual "inhabitant" of the ... show a circumferential crater wall that rises about 4.5 kilometers above the crater floor and has partially eroded inwards.

Researchers used observations from the Webb Telescope to identify carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...