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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered that young exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being blasted by intense x-rays from its host star, stripping ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

Jan. 23, 2026 NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Observations NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) entered safe ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...