A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched from a rocket in California.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...