Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

The International Space Station can sometimes seem like a menagerie, housing (on different occasions) everything from frogs to worms, crickets, mollusks, butterflies, and even quail. This past ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.