Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

showing how common solar systems like our own may be across the galaxy. Additional advances in coronagraph technology will be ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...