Scientists discovered WASP-121b, an exoplanet where metals rain from the sky. Located 858 light-years away, this 'ultra-hot ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

The results show that the most detectable signals from Earth are radio waves, particularly from planetary radar emissions, ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...