Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, Kepler-10c is a massive exoplanet that challenges existing theories about planetary ...

Chemosynthetic life communities in the Northwest Pacific could offer glimpse of what life might look like on other planets ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

Astronomers discover GJ 2126 b, a giant planet with an extremely eccentric orbit, 124 light-years away, using HARPS data.

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took a manned submersible to the bottom of deep-sea trenches in an area in the ...