One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

The study sheds light on Proxima Centauri’s unusually robust magnetic field, which fuels its flaring activity. As its ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

Key takeawaysPlanets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...