Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

The universe is full of mind-bending, strange worlds that make Earth seem like a distant memory. In this video, we dive into 10 of the most bizarre and terrifying planets ever discovered by NASA and ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

Dark matter may ignite brown dwarfs into glowing “dark dwarfs” Only self-annihilating dark matter types would create this effect James Webb Telescope may already be able to detect dark dwarfs ...

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

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

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

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

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...