Researchers discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of ground-based telescopes and the TESS space...
The small footprint and dim light of white dwarfs, remnants of stars that have burned through their fuel, may make...
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Johns Hopkins University have unlocked new secrets about the interiors of super-Earth...
Most of the universe is invisible to the human eye. The building blocks of stars are only revealed in wavelengths...
A surprising yellow haze of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas “dwarf” exoplanet about 96 light years away...
The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it...
Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas...
A rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star’s intense radiation somehow...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
New images of Jupiter’s volcano-studded moon Io, taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, offer the...
The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all...
When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target Dinkinesh in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid—known as...
