An alien star has now been discovered to have an extra planet that astronomers so far cannot explain. A fourth planet has been imaged orbiting the bright, very young star HR 8799, nearly 130 ...

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Like cosmic sleuths with a time machine, astronomers conducted a thorough re-analysis of old data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1998, and found visual evidence for two alien planets ...

"We know we are making an exciting and bold claim so we expect that other astronomers will look at it very carefully," said one researcher. "We think we have a strong argument, and this process is how ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained ...

SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is among the stinkiest ever with a strong rank stench worse than rotten egg farts.

This not-so-little piece of equipment could change astronomy forever. And it could be about to find alien life. Maybe in a ...