A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

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

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

The Thirty Metre Telescope unites India and Japan in space exploration. Expected to be operational by mid-2030s, scientists ...

See imaginative exoplanet worlds by St. Ann’s fifth graders at Blakemore Planetarium, Museum of the Southwest, on view ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Image: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope developed by ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...