In May 2024, a powerful solar storm had a massive impact on our planet, with effects felt even at the ocean floor. Due to a ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...