"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a gas giant self-destructing by spiraling into its young star – a "planetary suicide.” ...

During his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, said he likes to spend his free time either doing ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...

The new spacecraft speedometer can track satellite speeds, addressing the challenges of growing space traffic.

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

At 45, Nikku Madhusudhan has made the discovery of a lifetime. How did he know where to look? What else could these gas ...

The UK government is investing £50 million in a geoengineering project to explore solar radiation management, aiming to ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...