The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Of all the exoplanets astronomers have found with ages less than 50 million years, TOI 1227 b stands out for having the ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, Ultra-Hot Jupiter that’s getting dangerously close to its star. It’s more massive than Jupiter and orbits its star more quickly than Mercury orbits the Sun. There ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...