This is potentially enough to build planetary systems larger than our own solar system,” announced Dr. Katie Hesterly of the SKA Observatory, when she revealed the first direct observation of ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress in advancing the understanding of the formation and evolution of the inner ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

European Space Agency ESA is getting ready to launch in 2026 a terrestrial planets exploration tool called PLAnetary Transits ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million years, it is a prime target for the James Webb Space Telescope.

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons we can’t explain ...