In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

Our galaxy is full of strange worlds, but what would happen if we could bring some of them into our own Solar System? Moving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...