Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

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

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

NASA’s AI, ExoMiner++, is scanning TESS data, flagging 7,000 potential exoplanets. Open-source and powerful, it separates ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...