A NASA scientist has suggested there could be life in the seas of a planet in our Solar System - and it's not out of the question it could still exist there today ...

NASA's Dr David Grinspoon claims there could be life on the dwarf planet Ceres as astrobiologists are constantly 'surprised' by the level of activity in the solar system ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

Stunning new images released by the European Southern Observatory show 'planet-forming discs' - swirling rings of gas and dust surrounding young stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

"There are only two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a ...

Astronomers puzzled by ‘weird’ planet whose atmosphere is being ripped off by its sun ‘We were really expecting something very predictable, repeatable. But it turned out to be weird’ ...

It's possibly the most recognisable of all the planets in the solar system due to being the only one with a set of rings around it. But from our perspective here on Earth, the rings of Saturn are ...

Stars in the Milky Way aren’t eternal. When massive ones explode, their material spreads into space, eventually forming new stars and planets. In a way, the galaxy is constantly recycling itself.

Astronomers baffled after discovering giant double-planets floating without star to orbit The discovery could indicate the presence of double-Neptunes or double-Earths in planet-forming regions of ...

Planets forming within the first 100 million years of such a star’s birth are expected to experience the most amount of atmospheric escape which could end up completely stripping the planet of ...