Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreat ...

Astronomers have introduced a new class of exoplanets, dubbed “soot planets,” which are believed to be more widespread across ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

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

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

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

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

Red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, and understanding how planets form around them is therefore essential.

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...