A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these violent outbursts take place on young stars, they pack enough energy to potentially kickstart the chemistry of life on any orbiting planets.

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called three-dimensional eclipse mapping, or spectroscopic eclipse mapping, which turns tiny shifts in light into a detailed picture of an alien atmosphere.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission.

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength that water does not absorb will probe deeper. If you put those together, you can get a 3D map of the temperatures in this atmosphere.”

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The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that could have liquid surface water, according to a ...

What can planets orbiting red dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated new data obtained about a four-planet system ...

Believe it or not, there is currently an international space safety emergency protocol in effect across the entire planet. The news has been somewhat lost in

The panspermia theory suggests microscopic life could travel through space on asteroids, with bacteria surviving up to eight years under space conditions, seeding planets like Earth.