A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Set in the year 2120, the events of the series take place two years before Scott’s OG movie that kick-started it all, 7 years after the prequel film Prometheus (2012), which takes place in 2093, and ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) is planning a free special celebration to involve the community on Saturday, April 12, ...