Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable ...

Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet ...

Earth" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

The hunt for exoplanets began in earnest in the 1990s when the first confirmed discovery was made. Since then, astronomers ...

The ultimate test of any change is whether ordinary citizens benefit. In education, we could ask if graduates at any level from primary to university exhibit certain characteristics.

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...