Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...