Venus is increasingly becoming a touch point for our studies of exoplanets, as missions like the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

Saturn's magnetic shield is asymmetrical compared to Earth's, suggests a new study involving University College London (UCL) ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield is unexpectedly lopsided, with its entry point for solar particles pushed off-center. Scientists ...

The scene around WISPIT 2 is messy in a way that matters. Rings of dust circle the young star, gaps cut through the disc, and ...

For decades, Saturn has been playing a strange trick on scientists. Depending on how ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly confirmed two planets in the act of forming around a single star, and the system bears a striking resemblance to something much closer to home. The star ...