HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

TNG are based on real scientific concepts. While some are purely fictional, others—like Earth-like M-class planets—are inspired by what we know about exoplanets. With thousands of exoplanets ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The company planning to build the world’s fastest airliner at Piedmont Triad International Airport completed the first supersonic flight of its demonstrator aircraft on Tuesday at the Mojave Air & ...

ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut Lunar Descent Element.