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

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, but does that mean they could host ...

Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...