Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

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

In a groundbreaking development, NASA has announced a new alloy that could be the key to unlocking ultra-stable space ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and contraction of other materials. The alloy’s unique NTE property and lack ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

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

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

New research says that the search for extraterrestrial life may be too narrow, as life could thrive in conditions far ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...