There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars where Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker watches a double sunset above Tatooine, ...

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will ...

The Webb telescope has detected a dark, atmosphere-less rocky exoplanet that could shed light on how Earth-like worlds die.

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Astronauts and robotic spacecraft have been capturing profound photos of Earth for decades. Earth Day is an annual celebration on April 22 focused on environmentalism and conservation. Iconic images ...

NASA launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Just 14 days ago, amid the mundanity of East Coast commutes and West Coast alarm ...

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How much water do habitable exoplanets need for life as we know it to exist? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Kepler-452b orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone with a 385-day year, making it the most Earth-like exoplanet ever confirmed. Here's what the discovery reveals about our search for other ...

A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space–ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) or ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature lays out an intriguing concept for finding hard-to-spy exoplanets, especially those in the same overall category as Earth: a giant sunshade held in orbit ...