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.

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

While long-fabled technologies like Smell-O-Vision are still a long way off from ever being a reality, astronomers can still technically smell stuff deep in space without actually having to get a ...

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

Astronomers have identified a clue hidden in the light of certain stars that's already led them to discover seven new alien planets, with more expected to come. To be clear, these alien planets likely ...