But the discovery is an exciting one, nevertheless: it's like getting a sneak peek at the future of the Solar System, and the ...

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

The search for a second Earth within the Milky Way is ongoing, but a recently discovered planet falls short of the mark.

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

The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

The finding provides insights into the future of the Solar System and the fate of Earth once the Sun dies and becomes a white ...

The team that studied this event identified an Earth-like exoplanet and an object 17 times larger than Jupiter (most likely a ...

The planet, with a mass about 1.9 times that of Earth, is orbiting the white dwarf about 4,200 light-years away from our solar system near the bulge at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our own planet. Although the exoplanet may no longer be habitable, its survival ...

American scientists have issued a warning that a big solar storm is going to hit the Earth, and it may affect ... and material blasted into the solar system by the Sun. The incoming solar storm ...

The enormous explosion of radiation, the largest in seven years, could also so spark radio blackouts and disrupt satellites and GPS system ... way the solar wind interacts with Earth´s magnetosphere.

Our planet is the only place in the solar system—and indeed the universe—where we know that life exists. But if the basic ...