On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...