"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...
Yet another faraway world has come to sharper focus thanks to the collective scientific muscle of citizen scientists.
Located approximately 4,000 light-years away, the planet is named KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and orbits a white dwarf star. Our Sun is ...
Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...
LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...
Due to how their air moves, the atmospheric conditions of hot exoplanets are expected to change between morning and evening.
In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made groundbreaking observations of WASP-107b, an exoplanet ...