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

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

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

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

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

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

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

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

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth ... of the solar system when they observed a so-called "microlensing event," referring to the curvature of light from a background source ...

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 ...

where they rocket across the Solar System. When these solar particles collide with Earth's magnetosphere, the result is what we call a geomagnetic storm, a major disruption of Earth's magnetosphere ...

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.