Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

Our solar system and galaxy were the first objects of study for what was going on in the universe. Among the various ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system that dances to a cosmic rhythm. Located 105 light-years away in the ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

Since the Moon is approaching its full phase, its nightly journey promises excellent naked-eye stargazing, inviting ...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...