The universe holds countless worlds beyond our reach. Kepler-22b stands out among them—a super-Earth swimming in the habitable zone of its star. Science lets us paint a picture of what we'd find.

A global team observed a massive plasma burst from EK Draconis, showing how early solar storms may have shaped young planets.

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

Pakistan army kills 18 terrorists in Balochistan’s Quetta and Kech districts; weapons and explosives recovered during ongoing ...

The closest approach of comet 3I/ATLAS to Earth will happen on Friday, 19 December 2025, at a distance of 1.797478 ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

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

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...

A team from the University of Maryland and Cornell University developed the first three-dimensional temperature map of ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary systems — unchanged and intact." The first-ever detection of heavy water in ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. A super-Earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star has been ...

When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...