Danny Lewis: Aylin says this recent finding is evidence that life could be more common in our solar system than we once thought. And also perhaps on exoplanets. Those are planets found outside our ...

Looking ahead, the researchers predict that any detectable exomoons with current technology would be atypical compared to those in our solar system. They would need to be exceptionally large and ...

Caltech/Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF Investigating auroral emissions from objects outside our solar system may help reveal whether exoplanets have magnetospheres similar to Earth’s. And because ...

Hydrogen sulfide is present on Jupiter and was predicted to exist on gas giant exoplanets, but evidence of the molecule had been elusive outside our solar system, Fu said. “Hydrogen sulfide is ...

One of the strongest signs of life outside Earth was announced this week, but some astronomers cautioned that it is extremely difficult to verify. That raises the question: will there ever come a ...

Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe. Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our Solar System was formed ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers typically divide the planets in our solar system into two types: Rocky worlds and gas giants. But, according to a new ...

"That has never been done before for something the size of a gas giant planet outside of our solar system." Related: Listen to the terrifying rumble of Earth's magnetic field being assaulted by a ...