A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

If you've ever dreamed of leaving your mark on science, look no further: NASA has a citizen-science program that will let you contribute. Regardless of whether you want to study landslides, comets, or ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...