Nearby M dwarf unleashes first confirmed stellar blast strong enough to strip atmospheres from planets, challenging hopes for ...

Building on that legacy, Lowell Observatory played a key role in the world’s first Planetary Defense mission in 2022, DART ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

What: New JWST observations probe the possible atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a ...

The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

An international team of astronomers has identified a rare, potentially habitable super-Earth just 19.5 light-years from ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

Astronomers have for the first time detected a coronal mass ejection from another star, shedding light on worlds orbiting red ...

A 62-page document written by billionaire Jared Isaacman outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for ...

It’s the grand narrative of how optics transformed human vision and understanding of the universe, showing how a simple desire to read better by candlelight eventually led to humanity peering into the ...