The search for extraterrestrial life is no longer focused only on distant exoplanets. Scientists are examining several ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop last spring, and its "first light" images ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...