Our planet’s fate has been sealed in the stars: in about five billion years, Earth will be engulfed by the sun, ending all ...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi, have spotted such a gruesome glimpse of stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

For years, scientists believed most mini-Neptunes were covered by vast oceans of molten rock—essentially entire planets made ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

The four presenters will have 10 minutes apiece to compete by using the planetarium visuals, explaining a part of the universe to the audience.

Using JWST, scientists mapped WASP-18b’s atmosphere in 3D, revealing blazing regions where water molecules split apart.

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...