According the new research, planets may not be necessary for life to exist. The paper is called “Self-Sustaining Living Habitats in Extraterrestrial Environments" and published in the journal ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.

Controversial new paper suggests satellites falling to earth could weaken planet's magnetic field, sounding alarm on rise of private-owned craft like Elon Musk's Starlink which could become space junk ...

Red Lake, Minn., third-graders win challenge for writing book about planets John Eklund, a teacher at Red Lake Elementary School, has driven a spaceship to several planets.

But if they are validated as genuine, the haul of 374 would increase the total number of planets found in the K2 data by about 50 percent—a remarkable result for a single paper.

Teenagers find 4 exoplanets and write peer-reviewed scientific paper on them Jeff Parsons Published February 1, 2021 10:16am Updated February 1, 2021 12:16pm ...