Astronomers have identified a nearby rocky extrasolar planet that has an atmosphere and lies within its star's habitable zone.
A 'super Earth' extrasolar planet is now thought to be a potentially habitable world able to support extraterrestrial life.
The two outer planets in our solar system remain the least understood owing to their distance and the lack of exploratory missions.
NASA's Perseverance rover has identified some of the most tantalizing clues to date of life in the Red Planet's distant past.
It has been over 22 years since the ill-fated Beagle Mars lander set down on the surface of the Red Planet.
The iconic Mars spacecraft has ended its mission after more than 11 years in orbit around the Red Planet.
A space rock the size of a basketball court is due to make its closest approach of our planet later on this evening.
What if the ancient wonder is not a tomb at all, but something of a larger - even cosmic - significance ?
An ambitious new mission to the red Planet could demonstrate, for the first time, nuclear electric propulsion in action.
It's easy to take it for granted that our own solar system, with one star, is the norm - but it turns out that this may not be the case.
The discovery points to the building blocks of life being preserved on the Red Planet for billions of years.
A large asteroid is set to make history when it passes within 20,000 miles of our planet before the decade is out.
This unfathomable scenario would be, as you might expect, absolutely devastating for all life on our planet.
The shortlist was picked out of more than 6,000 candidates based on a range of factors pertaining to habitability.
This distant world, known as L98-59d, offers a literal interpretation of the phrase 'the floor is lava'.
The discovery of a distant solar system with its planets in a seemingly impossible order has been revealed this week.
Scientists have found evidence of a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels hidden beneath the planet's surface.
Another potentially habitable world has been discovered thanks to data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope.
Astronomers have detected an enigmatic free floating planet approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth.
The mysterious extrasolar world was spotted with the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.