"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

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

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

This week, a new analysis of Jupiter's atmosphere estimated that the gas giant has 1.5 times more oxygen than the sun.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...