Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

In a statement Thursday, astrophysicist Amri Wandel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem said his research challenges the traditional concept of the "habitable zone," the narrow orbital range around a ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.

Planet 9 sits at the edge of scientific imagination, promising either an epic expansion of the Solar System or a lesson in ...

The new teen-led Paramount+ TV show isn't Trek's first attempt to study at the Academy.

I’m crouching in a West African rainforest, staring at a bungalow-sized boulder. The humid air thrums with insects and ...

Shri Kulkarni, an Indian-born astrophysicist from Maharashtra, has shaped modern astronomy while emerging from a family of ...

Scientists have identified phenomena in deep space that can act as naturally occurring “space weather stations” far beyond our solar system.