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

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

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

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, TOI-2431 b, on a death spiral. The planet orbits its star in just five hours and 22 minutes, making it an exoplanet with one of the shortest orbit ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations in July of 2022. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ...