An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

In principle, discovering new exoplanets is pretty easy. Simply measure the brightness of a star over time, and when a planet ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky ...

A new era in space research is on the horizon, with the launch of the Mauve space telescope, the world’s first commercial ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time ... "TRAPPIST-1e remains one of our most compelling habitable-zone planets, and ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...