In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between hydrogen and molten rock within sub-Neptunes ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...