The odds of us finding extraterrestrial life anytime soon are pretty slim. But if there's anything that can deliver us a sign ...

In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, an international team including University of Liège astronomers report the ...

The star is surrounded by seven rocky, Earth-sized exoplanets — three of which orbit within TRAPPIST-1's habitable zone, where conditions ... planet beyond our Solar System, ever.

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

The majority of the known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter at an average ...