An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - ...

This planet lies about 500 light years from the Earth and its 10 percent larger than our living planet. Though it has a ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Astronomers have identified thousands of exoplanets, but only a handful look like Earth. These 16 worlds may be the closest ...

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.

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...