A newly discovered exoplanet, located just 35 light-years from Earth, could be one of the most promising places to search for ...

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

Lava planets may sound like science fiction, but they're very real for astrophysics professor Dr. Lisa Dang, who is studying ...

Ice crystals in Earth’s atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around the moon, to bright spots called sun dogs on either side of the sun in a ...

Signs of life on K2-18 b are revisited as a new NASA-led study finds no conclusive evidence for dimethyl sulfide, tempering ...

Modelling suggests that data collected by JWST will be able to distinguish between planets that are molten to the core and those that are not.

Astronomers have recently discovered a massive exoplanet, Kepler-139f, hidden within a known star system. This Neptune-sized ...

L 98-59 f, an "exoplanet", lives in what’s called the star’s "habitable", temperate or "Goldilocks zone" — that’s the sweet ...

The stellar companion may help explain why the brightness of Betelgeuse, the red supergiant, is open to so much variation.

Other researchers also analysed the same data using different statistical models and didn't find evidence for the presence of ...