"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

For the first time, an international collaboration led by Chinese researchers with the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has adopted the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique ...

A paper by astronomers Nathan Kaib and Sean Raymond released earlier this month used new simulations to determine how likely ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the "Goldilocks zone," where it's neither too hot nor too cold, and ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.