Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

Solving the "Lucky Light" Problem: Light from a star interferes with signals from an exoplanet's atmosphere, making water detection difficult. A phenomenon discovered in 2018, this effect limits ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets are ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.