Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

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The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

The research is titled " Seismic Oscillations Excited by Giant Impacts in Directly-Imaged Giant Planets. " The lead author is ...

In addition to her renowned research and publications, Hsieh serves as the director of the Brain Health Consortium and chair ...

After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is ...

There are more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets so far in our Milky Way galaxy. Space may be vast, but it isn’t lonely. New research indicates the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets ...