One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region around a star where planets receive enough stellar energy to have ...

This artist’s concept depicts a potential volcanic moon between the exoplanet WASP-49 b, left, and its parent star. New evidence indicating that a massive sodium cloud observed near WASP-49 b is ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal.

Studying the chemical cloud has taken a long time because it is often obscured by WASP-49 b (left) and the exoplanet's home star WASP-49 (right). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In addition to ...

Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...

Boeing’s bad year in space continues. Following the troubled first crewed flight of its Starliner spacecraft, now a satellite designed and built by the company appears to have exploded in orbit ...

In May 2024, the first exoplanet orbiting TIC 393818343 was detected. The planet, which received designation TIC 393818343 b, orbits the host every 16.25 days on an eccentric orbit.

If you’re looking to dramatically change a room but don’t want to spend a lot of money, time, or even be especially committed to the results, consider removable wallpaper — specifically the ...

Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, has been in the evening sky for a week now. If you haven’t seen it, that’s understandable because there’s also been a bright Moon in the sky.

AF Lep b, a planet about 3.2 times the mass of Jupiter, set records in 2023 as the lowest-mass exoplanet detected through direct observation and the lowest-mass planet with its mass measured via ...

WASP-49 b is a gas giant exoplanet that's around three times less massive than Jupiter and located 635 light-years from Earth ...