Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...