Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

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

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Explore four hypothetical exoplanets that could be better for humans than Earth. This video covers: - The Real Life Pandora - The Black Sun World - Twin Earths - The World With 5 Suns All these ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

Deep-learning tools like ExoMiner++ can sift through massive datasets, confirming real exoplanet signals and accelerating ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

NGC 7331, the sight of supernova SN2025rbs, imaged by George Gheirchi (US).

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

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

What effects can an exoplanet orbiting close to its star have on the former’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study ...