Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

Astronomers have introduced a new class of exoplanets, dubbed “soot planets,” which are believed to be more widespread across ...

As the quest for extraterrestrial life gains momentum, a new era of astrobiology is on the horizon. The Extremely Large ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, who previously worked as president and CEO of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...