The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Astronomers using NASA's Swift telescope detected water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in a surprising location. Discover how ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

The study revealed that TOI-2267 has two closely bound stars orbiting each other, and the third planet transits the companion star.

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

NASA states It’s a protostar (a young star gathering mass from its environment) surrounded by a massive planet-forming disc. It is the view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disc located about 525 ...