Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Anew study led by Robb Calder at the University of Cambridge suggests that nearly all known sub-Neptune exoplanets, ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts electricity. This unusual form is believed to shape the magnetic fields of ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...