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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

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

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...

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

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

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 ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets.

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