We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

They can’t all be stars. Researchers using the James Webb Telescope have discovered six distant “rogue” worlds that may have peculiar origins. What’s uncommon is that none of the planet-sized bodies, ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI ...

The TOI-700 star system is home to four planets, including two in its habitable zone that could host liquid water. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Habitable planets are those that are just the ...

Out in the depths of the galaxy are all sorts of unusual exoplanets, from freezing cold ice giants to boiling ultra-hot gas giants — and on many of these odd worlds you'll find strange weather as well ...

In a new study, astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the 'terminator zone,' which is a ring on planets that have ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

Researchers examined Neptunian exoplanets -- these planets share similar characteristics to our own Neptune, but orbit outside of our solar system. Scientists discovered a new area called the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Adriana Errico, PhD. candidate (Astrophysics) ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Humanity ...

Earthlings have never been terribly sophisticated cosmic tourists. Ask us which worlds we’d like most to visit and our answers are always the same: Mars! Jupiter! Saturn! Neptune! But there’s a ...