What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Kappa Tucanae A, 70 light-years away, hosts dust hotter than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit that should not survive. Astronomers ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so hot it glows at more than ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

Astronomers usually don't like clouds. After all, clouds obscure their view of the cosmos. But dense cloud coverage is now something astronomers might look for on distant exoplanets. Researchers at ...

There’s no place like home. Unless, perhaps, your research involves finding a new home among the stars. But world-renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager says she's excited to be returning to her ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved an unprecedented feat by mapping for the first time the atmosphere of a distant planet in three dimensions. This breakthrough opens a new window into ...

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...