In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

With an orbital period around one year, much like Earth's 13-hour transit duration, HD 137010 b tantalises as Earth 2.0.

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients ...

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and its moon, Charon. This celestial dance defied expectations, birthing a ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Life as we know it needs liquid water. For liquid water to exist on a given planet, it has to lie in a specific region called ...

As part of Juno’s extended mission, the spacecraft is making close encounters of Jupiter’s large Galilean moons after having ...

Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...