Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a good candidate for a space ...

A new candidate exoplanet appears to almost uncanny similarities to Earth — but may differ in at least one major way.

A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long ...

The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...