An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - and found that some areas are as hot as 3,500°C.Dr Jasmina Blecic, from New ...

For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

China search for Earth 2.0 leads a bold 2026–2030 space plan to probe the early universe, our Sun, and Earth-like exoplanets.

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

Clouds may spoil a picnic or block our view of the stars, but they could also help scientists discover life on distant planets. A new study from Cornell University shows that the colorful ...

Astronomers have captured the first clear evidence of a giant eruption of charged gas from a distant star, marking a turning point in the study of space weather.

Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet at a binary star system known as TOI-2267. The planets were first found by ...

On this week’s episode of our YouTube exclusive show Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Eric Lagatta discuss newly discovered evidence of UFOs in the skies around our nuclear test ...