Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) telescope is to launch in 2029 and spend years ...

According to CNN, the camera’s full field of view for one image spans up to 400 high-definition television screens. The data ...

The star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b, is depicted in this illustration released by ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made yet another exciting discovery—but it never works alone. Thanks ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star — a ...

Weird worlds Exoplanets around the size of Jupiter that orbit very close to their stars are called “Hot Jupiters.” One such world named 51 Pegasi b is so near to its star that it circles it once every ...