In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

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

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets, accordin ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in fall 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

How does a star’s activity influence exoplanet data obtained by scientists? This is what a recent study published in The ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...