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

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

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

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

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 ...

On Earth, DMS is made by ocean plankton, then quickly broken down in the atmosphere through photochemical and other reactions ...

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

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

Researchers have developed an innovative photodetector capable of detecting a broad range of mid-infrared spectra.

On April 25, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget announced a plan that would slash NASA’s science program ...

Why doesn’t our solar system have sub-Neptune exoplanets and what can they teach us about planetary formation and evolution?