A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

The low frequency component of the massive Square Kilometre Array radio observatory due online in 2027, should detect auroras ...

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For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with comets and asteroids delivering moisture to Earth and the inner planets during ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...

CE Antilae, discovered in 1999, has long been a system of great interest to astronomers because it is seen "pole-on" from ...

I am an astrophysicist and astrobiologist with over 20 years of experience studying extrasolar planets—which are planets beyond our solar system.. My colleagues and I have developed a new ...

Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our ...