Nasa's Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter and its moons, has detected the most powerful volcanic activity in the Solar System.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...

A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

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

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.