Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

Up until now, exoplanet surveys have mostly focused on nearby, bright stars that are sun-like or are red dwarfs, which are known to frequently host planets. While astronomers have discovered thousands ...

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In old measurement data, two US researchers found a star that appeared "completely crazy." Apparently, there was a ...

Dr. Heike Rauer of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Freie Universität Berlin is awarded the 2026 Caroline Herschel Medal. The medal and prize recognise her outstanding contributions to exoplanet ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Astronomers studying the exoplanet K2-18b using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected molecules that may indicate the presence of life. Among them is dimethyl sulfide, a compound on Earth ...

They were too big and too far away to exist by the rules. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has finally cracked the chemical code of these distant ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but finding them is incredibly difficult. Unlike stars, planets don’t shine on their own, making them almost invisible across ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...