By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes.

Our galaxy is full of strange worlds, but what would happen if we could bring some of them into our own Solar System? Moving ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

The ozone layer, which is located in Earth's stratosphere, is important to life because it protects Earth from the Sun's ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system, according to a study available on the preprint server arXiv. The landmark observation offers a new ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

Scientists believe that greater plant growth provides more energy and ecological space for animals, linking the conditions ...