The Etosha Pan in northern Namibia, the largest salt flat in the country, looks otherworldly in this satellite photo.

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

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

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...

Astronomers have searched a nearby system with two stars for giant planets—and found none. But the result could help guide future searches for smaller, rocky worlds, including planets that might have ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. LHS 1140b orbits a faint, red star within the constellation of Cetus — named after a ...