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

This week's episode of SpaceBeat includes 1950s UFO evidence over nuclear test sites, Blue Origin’s New Glenn prep, the first ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

NASA’s TESS has unveiled TOI-2267, a remarkable binary star system located 190 light-years away, featuring three Earth-sized ...

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

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...