Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

A recent study has revealed the presence of a previously unknown companion planet orbiting the star Komondor (HAT-P-12) by ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in Mesopotamia and Egypt, according to NASA. Thuban is located some 270 light-years ...

Even at the present time, when humanity possesses extremely modern giant ground observatories, as well as advanced space telescope systems, capturing images of an exoplanet is still quite rare and ...

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...

HD 35843, or TOI 4189, is a metal-poor G-dwarf star with a radius of ... and HD 35843 c as a sub-Neptune exoplanet. It was noted that it is still too early to draw a final conclusion regarding ...

But they were reluctant to draw grand conclusions. In another interview, Madhusudhan said, “Yes, we are detecting a biomarker as we know it to be on earth (we obviously don't know the context for such ...

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital ... they exhibit more than enough gravitational pull to draw objects into orbit.

While the researchers want to learn more about the exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, they can draw comparisons with the fictional Tatooine in Star Wars, a desert world that orbited two suns.

These continued pursuits have uncovered a new object called Gliese 12 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that is less active than TRAPPIST ... is escaping into space or staying put. Red dwarfs draw ...

An exoplanet is a planet beyond the ... have discovered a fourth member in that ultra-light star system. These low-density specimens draw curiosity because they’ve somehow hung onto their ...