The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, and they orbit each other widely, indicating that their protoplanetary disks ...

Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Experts tell Live Science how they are planning to observe ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 30.5 hours. Its dayside reaches a scorching 3000°C, while the ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

Here, Cyril tells us about his work and how it could help answer the ultimate astronomical question – is there life elsewhere ...