Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

As humanity ventures deeper into space, one critical question looms large: how do we prevent Earth's microbes from ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

Earth's climate is changing faster than expected, due to growing imbalance in the planet's energy budget, according to new ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and ...

JWST has made another breakthrough. Around a newly formed star just 111 light-years away, the powerful space telescope has ...

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NASAs Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of spiderweb-like “boxwork” formations on Mars, revealing ...