There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must ...

A large proportion of the most common type of planet in the galaxy could be situated in the habitable "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar system, research has found. Astronomers from the University of ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

A dwarf planet near Mars could help astronomers in their search for alien life, as more research has been done into its abundance of organic matter. The planet, named Ceres, lies in the asteroid belt ...

Newly identified planet GJ 251 c orbits a nearby m-dwarf, offering promising target for future life-detection missions - ...

University of Florida astronomers have discovered that a third of the planets around the most common stars in the galaxy could be in a goldilocks orbit close enough to hold onto liquid water – and ...

There are likely many more exoplanets with liquid water than previously thought, according to a new science paper published today. That massively increases the chances of life existing elsewhere in ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. This has led some scientists to speculate that the ...

KOI 5715.01, a planet 3,000 light-years away, offers superior habitability to Earth with a longer-lived star and billions ...

In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to ...