There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

Astronomers have discovered jet-stream winds reaching 20,500 miles per hour on the planet WASP-127b. In Peru, paleontologists revealed a 9-million-year-old great white shark ancestor fossil. Lonestar ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

(Web Desk) - A terrifying alien planet that "rains glass" lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a "nightmare world" by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast winds that reach up ...

Published in the Journal of Astrobiology, the paper does not argue that there was a technologically advanced species long ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water ...

In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping atmosphere. Credit: Space.com | animation: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makare ...

This led to molten rock resurfacing the planet and massive volcanic outgassing to fill the atmosphere, creating immense surface pressure. Over multiple periods of some 60 million years, each ...