A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured vivid auroras swirling in Neptune’s upper atmosphere—revealing a phenomenon that had eluded astronomers for decades. As reported ...

A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

The new sub-neptune planet has been designated as GI 410 b. It weighs as much as the mass of 8.5 Earths. Making it one of the ...

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

Neptunes, which are exoplanets whose size is between Earth and Neptune, teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...