Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

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

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and contraction of other materials. The alloy’s unique NTE property and lack ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

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

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...