Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

Have you ever wondered why, with the vastness of the universe and the countless exoplanets we've discovered, there's still no ...

Efforts to discover extraterrestrial life are increasingly engaging scientists. However, a recent study presents a rather pessimistic view about such a discovery. According to researchers, ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

Paulette LeBlanc, president of the Friends of the Safford City-Graham County Library, beamed into the library on Oct. 28 to hear author David Baron's talk about the Martian craze that ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

A team from the University of Maryland and Cornell University developed the first three-dimensional temperature map of ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet, WASP-18b. The planet's extreme heat is believed to disintegrate water.

The scene is burned into pop culture memory: a young Luke Skywalker, silhouetted against the vast desert, gazing wistfully as ...