HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Researchers believe super-Earths orbiting long-lived orange dwarf stars may offer better conditions for life than Earth.

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Solve the math puzzle from our February 2026 issue, where we plan a return passage for a robotic explorer that doesn’t want ...

New simulations show Mars plays a key role in shaping Earth’s long-term climate by influencing its orbit and axial tilt over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...