For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

In new research published today in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006. Its average distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion kilometers, a distance ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

Astronomers have discovered new evidence that suggests the possibility of an unknown planet in our solar system's farthest ...