The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ awash with oceans on one side and baked on the other after it flashed a repeated ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...