Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

April skies feature close planet pairings, a bright meteor shower, and stunning views of the ancient star cluster M3.

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

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A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Needham native and astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, spoke Monday for the first time ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had ... Combination of Cosmic ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu’s ...