WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 30.5 hours. Its dayside reaches a scorching 3000°C, while the ...

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Remarkably, in all cases the subject’s hearing improved, with effects taking hold within a month and an average improvement ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

The James Webb Space telescope has given us some pretty unbelievable photos, showing us the faces of incredible objects in deep space. However, astronomers say that for the first time it’s now giving ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...