To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 1I/'Oumuamua is alien tech, blasting the scientific establishment for a ...

Astronomers urged Chile to relocate a planned hydrogen plant, saying it could raise light pollution and affect major observatories in the Atacama Desert ...

TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, has signed its first contract with the W. M. Keck Observatory to initiate the design of Keck’s Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM).

What the Soviets Found on Venus reveals a hellish surface, reanalyzed Venera data, and why those probes still guide today’s ...

Earth’s climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet’s ...