“Super-puff” planets are fairly rare, but researchers just discovered two new ones with densities lower than that of candy ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located just 25 light-years away.

Planet GJ 3378b is 25 light-years from Earth and orbits its star at a blistering 21 days. Credit: NASA Twenty-five light-years away, in the constellation Camelopardalis, a small red star hosts a rocky ...

New research shows that Earth's oceans are warming quickly. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with oceanographer Brad deYoung about the record-breaking rise in marine temperatures.

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. And in a new study published today ...

Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight ...

Four months ago, I ran down three theories for how the SpaceX IPO might play out, both for SpaceX and for other space stocks. Briefly, these scenarios were: The fact that Planet stock went up so much ...

A rare celestial event will feature Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury appearing close together in the June sky. Venus and Jupiter will first appear together in a conjunction starting Tuesday, June 9.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's planetary ...

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar system ...

The astronauts circling Earth on the Artemis mission sent back beautiful clear photos of the continents, clouds and oceans. But we might be the exception. Many planets in the universe may be hazed in ...