A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

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

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a ...

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

WASP-127b's diameter is about 30% larger than Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. But its mass is only about 16% that ...

The universe is full of icy worlds that scientists suspect could serve as homes for alien life ... We’ve found plenty of ice in our solar system, but no consistent liquid water is known on ...