About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

Mosquitoes were found in Iceland for the first time ever this month, leaving only Antarctica with no reported sightings.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has revealed that if comet 3I/ATLAS were an 'alien spaceship', it could change course for Earth ...

Plasma ejections from young stars may offer valuable insights into the Sun’s early history. Most of the time, we hardly ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

The Penn State team discovered the exoplanet using the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder (HPF), a high-resolution spectrometer at the McDonald Observatory in Texas that operates in the near-infrared ...

Scientists have just discovered a super-Earth less than 20 light-years away — and it might be the most promising place yet in ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could ...