May 21, 2018 by News Staff

An image taken by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) shows a swath of the southern sky along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Illustration...

May 15, 2018 by News Staff

Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology....

May 7, 2018 by News Staff

A group of astronomers from Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States has found that the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b...

May 3, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has detected helium — the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen — in the atmosphere...

Apr 19, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was delivered to space Wednesday, April 18, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from...

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

How do we really know there weren’t previous civilizations on our planet that rose and fell long before humans appeared? That’s the question posed...

Apr 13, 2018 by News Staff

So-called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected...

Apr 11, 2018 by News Staff

A series of images from the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile shows dusty...

Apr 9, 2018 by News Staff

A new study from Cardiff University suggests there may be a cosmic lack of phosphorus, a crucial ingredient for life. This is a mosaic image, one of the...

Apr 5, 2018 by News Staff

Intense radiation from host stars could strip away the ozone layer of Earth-like exoplanets and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study presented...

Mar 28, 2018 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type...

Mar 13, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of twelve planets orbiting nine low-mass stars. The discovery is based on data from the...

Mar 7, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive dust structure — about 150 billion miles across — around HR 4796A,...

Mar 6, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Nestled in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, approximately 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disk around the young star AS 209...

Mar 2, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Saturn-mass exoplanet known as WASP-39b. By combining...

Feb 27, 2018 by News Staff

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers discovered that a giant stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri...

Feb 16, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths...

Feb 14, 2018 by News Staff

A bright K-type dwarf star called Gliese 9827 hosts one of the most massive (and dense) super-Earths detected to date, according to a study to be published...

Feb 13, 2018 by James Romero

Like a teenage diary you can’t throw away, Mars might carry a reminder of its difficult formative years in its tiny moons. A paper published by the Royal...

Feb 6, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of exoplanets within the habitable zone around TRAPPIST-1....