For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most promising places to study Earth-like planets outside our solar system. Among its seven rocky ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.