Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

But according to an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Geneva, in a study published ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Solar storms are disturbances on the Sun, which usually emanate outward across the heliosphere, affecting the entire Solar System ... and observed the luminosity of these loops fluctuated ...

Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...

The team utilized light curves from 12 Type Ia supernovae in the Coma Cluster, considered reliable “standard candles” for measuring cosmic distances due to their consistent luminosity. After refining ...

In two papers written by Leavitt in 1908 and 1912, she was able to determine that many of these variable stars had a distinctive period–luminosity relation. In other words, she realized that the ...