Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

Originally introduced as an evil Superman knockoff, Marvel’s Hyperion would, over time, evolve into a more heroic character, ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...