Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Aurora, commonly known as the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere, occur when charged particles from the Sun collide ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...