"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

LMU physicist Leonardos Gkouvelis has found a mathematical solution for investigating the atmospheres of distant worlds.

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

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Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.