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

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

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

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 ...

A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk ...

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.

SIMP 0136 sits about 20 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Pisces. With a mass about 13 times that of Jupiter, it's too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers stars, but ...

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

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