One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

We are getting close to being able to see signs of life on different worlds, says exoplanet pioneer Didier Queloz. Quantum mechanics is mind-blowing at the best of times. Sean Carroll explores perhaps ...

Stuart Jefferies, Georgia State University professor of physics and astronomy, along with students and international space scientists, have taken up the challenge to find lifeforms across the two ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

A newly identified planet orbiting a Sun-like star sits near the edge of the habitable zone, making it a compelling target for future study.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Explore the intriguing icy candidate for space Earth, uncover its features, significance, and potential impact on our understanding of planetary worlds.