When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

Republicans and Democrats are reacting to news of former Vice President Dick Cheney's death at the age of 84. Political strategists Joel Payne and Terry Sullivan join CBS News with more on Dick Cheney ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a bright K-type star known as TOI-283. The newfound alien world, ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Dictionary.com has named “six seven” as its Word of the Year — a phrase that’s become wildly popular among kids and parents alike, especially those with school-aged children. Known for its distinctive ...

It's the first use of a new technique called 3D eclipse mapping. Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a major leap ...

Surveys of the Galaxy have found that the most common type of planet is typically closer to its host star than the innermost planet of the Solar System, Mercury, is to the Sun. The orbits of these ...