Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

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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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system, a gas giant with a surface area of 23.71 billion square miles (61.42 billion square km), and also the heaviest of them all, coming in at 318 ...

An enormous world orbiting a sun-like star just 57 light-years away in space may have a pink hue and a sky filled with clouds of salt. "Distant object" is about as precise of a label as it gets for ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...