A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

And red dwarf stars like Wolf 359 are known to produce a lot ... but cold). The habitable zone is the region around a star where a planet with an atmosphere could retain liquid water on its ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

It uses a planet-detecting method called radial velocity, also known as the wobble or Doppler method ... It’s important to remember that having a planet in the habitable zone is not sufficient at all ...

As its name suggests, the Planet Buster is a superweapon capable of instantly destroying an entire world. It can be an ...

Pandora, a small satellite, is set to study at least 20 known exoplanets to analyze their atmospheres for hazes, clouds, and ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...