Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

What can exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server and submitted to the American ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed.

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th ...

Are Hycean exoplanets, which are a combination of hydrogen and a potential liquid water ocean, less common than previously hypothesized? This is what a rec | Space ...

Astronomers have discovered that many sub-Neptune exoplanets, once thought to host vast oceans, are far less watery than ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet, 51 Pegasi b, opened the door to a field that now boasts more than 5,000 ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...