A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an ...

It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life ...

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...

Astronomers have only previously found atmospheres around exoplanets that are very large or incredibly hot – but now they ...

Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek. In an unusual twist, two ...

PayPal users are facing a new wave of highly convincing scam emails that appear to confirm expensive subscription purchases they never made. Security researchers say criminals have figured out how to ...