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June 5, 2019

Exomoons could be home to extraterrestrial life, researcher says

An astrophysicist at the U.K.'s University of Lincoln says that exomoons, moons which orbit planets outside of our solar system, could contain liquid water and therefore, support life.

June 4, 2019

Growing alien worlds spotted in 'planet nursery' around young star

Astronomers have captured a remarkable image of two growing exoplanets circling a young star.

May 31, 2019

18 new Earth-size exoplanets pop up in old Kepler planet-hunting data

Scientists scouring old Kepler Space Telescope data have tracked down 18 more relatively small exoplanets imaged by the famed planet-hunting observatory.

May 29, 2019

Rogue 'forbidden' planet found in 'Neptunian Desert'

Researchers have found a "forbidden" planet roughly three times the size of Earth in an area known as the Neptunian Desert, a place where it should not exist.

May 27, 2019

Amateur astronomers report seeing 'blades' on Jupiter's Great Red Spot

What's in a name?What's in a name? Well, for the amateur astronomers and scientists fixated on Jupiter, there's been a recent need to describe its iconic storm as more than just a great red spot .

May 23, 2019

Major Martian ice discovery thrills scientists

Scientists have discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars’ north pole that could help unlock the Red Planet’s history.

May 20, 2019

Life on Pluto? Ocean, long thought to be frozen could be hidden, study claims

An ocean on Pluto long thought to have frozen over could actually just be hidden from view by an insulating cloud of gas, scientists say.

May 20, 2019

Solid, low-mass planets have best chance to survive parent star's death

When stars about the sun's size swell into red giants and finally dwindle into white dwarfs, their planets may be kicked out of the system or consumed.

May 14, 2019

Mysterious 'Sub-Neptunes' are probably water worlds

Water worlds that each possess thousands of times more water than Earth does may be more common than Earth-like rocky planets in the Milky Way galaxy , a new study finds.

April 29, 2019

NASA aims to probe mysterious atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune

Nearly 30 years after a NASA spacecraft visited the farthest planets in our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, the space agency is looking to go back.