A newly identified super-Earth orbiting a nearby star has rapidly climbed to the top of astronomers’ wish lists for worlds ...

Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common these days, but this planet is special because its star is located very ...

Giant sunspots, shaped like Santa Claus on a reindeer sled, can be seen through a smartphone camera or a special filter from ...

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency's ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

A new study finally uncovers what powers Venus's super-fast winds. Scientists found that a daily thermal tide—created by the ...