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

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

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

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Meanwhile, no terrestrial (or rocky) exoplanets have been observed orbiting closer to their stars. What's more, no exoplanets ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

Space is full of surprises but few are as unique as the so-called "cotton candy planets." These young, giant exoplanets have an incredibly low density and are quite light and airy in weight that is ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet, labeled BD+05 4868 Ab, is ...