Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of cumulative discoveries and ongoing research efforts. This achievement, ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas that both traps heat and destroys ozone, reducing Earth's protection from ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding grant from the National Science | Space ...

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced the ...

Neighbors in North Texas were happy to see the NASA logo after a large and mysterious object came down in their small farm ...

The finding, the first experimental proof of its kind, could help scientists design safer lunar missions and bases resistant ...