Exoplanets with Earth-like conditions could host life with structures and functions similar to Earth organisms, despite ...

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

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

According to the study, scientists had assumed that searing heat and thick gas layers would melt mini-Neptune crusts into ...

Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

The JWST has detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of a habitable sub-Neptune, ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

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 ...