A new study by an international team of astronomers raises questions about the existence of debris belts around red dwarf stars and how water could have been distributed within them.
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There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now, a new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such far-flung exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, far out of the primary orbital plane.
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When it deploys in 2025, NASA's WFIRST mission will rely on the gravitational microlensing technique to locate exoplanets near the center of our galaxy.
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In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with Breakthrough Listen.
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SpaceX was recently awarded a contract through NASA's Gateway Logistics Services program to provide services to the Lunar Gateway
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SpaceX suffered another setback with its development of the Starship last night when a third prototype (SN3) suffered a structural failure during testing and collapsed.
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NASA's researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center recently did just that, looking at Voyager 2's lone encounter with the planet Uranus to uncover an amazing find, as the planet seems to be losing its atmosphere to it's lop-sided magnetic field at a high rate.
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Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future exploration and resource prospecting
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A study by Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute provides models of how Earth looked like over time, which could help us find habitable exoplanets
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