Even though exoplanet science has advanced significantly in the last decade or two, we're still in an unfortunate situation. Scientists…
Hycean planets may be able to host life even though they're outside what scientists consider the regular habitable zone. Their…
When a young star begins forming, it's spinning rapidly, surrounded by a flattened disk that grows its future planets. Once…
We know that there are thousands of exoplanets out there, with many millions more waiting to be discovered. But the…
The Star Wars world Tatooine is one of the most recognizable planets in the realm of science fiction. It's a…
Evolution has produced a wondrously diverse variety of lifeforms here on Earth. It just so happens that talking primates with…
Discovering exoplanets is almost routine now. We've found over 5,500 exoplanets, and the next step is to study their atmospheres…
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…
Although it was bound for Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft made flybys of Earth in 1990 and 1992 to get boosts…
One of contemporary astronomy's most pressing questions concerns planet formation. We can see more deeply than ever into very young…