An international team of scientists has modeled the behavior of the atmosphere of a Mars—like exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, a red dwarf six light-years from Earth. This was reported on the news ...

Moons orbiting rogue planets, worlds flung from their parent star systems into the cold of interstellar space, could maintain ...

Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had come ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.

In A Nutshell A rocky planet 35 light-years away has a long-lived magma ocean in its interior and a sulfur-rich atmosphere being actively shaped by sunlight, according to new research. L 98-59 d doesn ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—a nearby M-dwarf star. The newfound alien world, ...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable world — the second closest to our own solar system. RELATED: Animal life ...