Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.