Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

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

The giants might've been kicked out, left to live a rogue lifestyle.

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

"We thought clouds would hide life from us, but surprisingly, they could help us find life." Astronomers usually don't like clouds. After all, clouds obscure their view of the cosmos. But dense cloud ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

The 13th session of the Shanghai Master Forum on Science was held at Fudan University on Monday, featuring a captivating presentation by Switzerland's Nobel Prize-winning physicist Didier Queloz, who ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen ...

Going into space is no small feat, and the cost to get people, satellites, and more to space is equally costly. Here are the ...