Some planets orbit so close to their stars that a single “year” lasts less than a day on Earth. A few of those worlds just ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

A 15-year-old student on work experience at Keele University, Tom Wagg, discovered WASP-142b by noticing a subtle drop in ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...