A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

Some series will never be able to change their protagonist. They may be able to have someone else in the lead role for a spin ...

The Animal Kingdom writer/director Thomas Cailley blends traditional French social realism with one major element of science fiction (humans turning into animals) to create a dystopian drama that ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. What if humanity's ...

P2 corresponds to the position of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. Image Credit: DiKerby, Zhang, & Irwin 2025, ApJ Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, ...

Dynamically informed habitable zones have been used in the past to investigate the habitability of circumstellar planets in binary systems and Earth-like analogs in systems with giant planets. Here, ...

Planets That Could Be Better for Life Than Earth Discover the surprising possibilities of habitable worlds beyond our own. Jimmy Patronis wins election for Matt Gaetz’s vacated seat Eddie Murphy ...