"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Scientists have searched for life beyond Earth for decades. We study exoplanets, send signals into space, and scan the sky ...

In this episode of the PhD stories, I talk to Emma about her PhD at the University of St Andrews, studying how depictions of ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.