Washington, Nov 30 (IANS) A NASA-led team of scientists has determined that WASP-18b, a "hot Jupiter" located 325 light-years from Earth, h...

Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...

Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium reopened here on Tuesday with a hybrid projector system for a breath-taking view ...

Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered exocomets -- comets outside our solar system -- plunging onto a young...

A transit is a phenomenon in which a planet passes in front of its parent star, blocking a small amount of light from the star, like a shad...

Tokyo, Nov 29 (IANS) In an important step towards the search for extra-terrestrial life, astronomers in Japan have observed the transit of ...

Astronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk -- a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a...

Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres..

The 2016 portfolio of Phase I concepts cover a wide range of innovations selected for their potential to revolutionise future aerospace mis...

Scientists have detected a strong light curve signal coming from OGLE-2014-BLG-1760. They assume that it must be caused by the presence of ...

Researchers have spotted an extrasolar planet, about 117 light-years from Earth, that boasts the most eccentric orbit ever seen.

NASA's "flying" telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, ...

The calls started on July 20, when Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project.

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora outside our solar system, around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away from Earth

All that our telescopes really see is a faint dip in a star's light as the shadow of a planet flutters across its path.

15-year-old schoolboy in UK has possibly become the youngest person ever to discover an alien planet after he found a new Jupiter-sized pla...

The scientific search for extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence has all the makings of a new religion. Believers argue that while it’s true ou...