Could the planet TRAPPIST-1 e, located in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, host liquid water and perhaps even life?

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands ...

The discovery of new exoplanets (aka planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system) are becoming a common regular occurrence, and the technological development used to find these intriguing new ...

On May 10, 2016, NASA announced the discovery of 1,284 more alien planets by is Kepler Space Telescope, a haul that includes nine exoplanets that might be habitable. See the discovery explained in ...

It was once punishable by death to propose and support the idea that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Our once geocentric view has undergone a major shift since earlier times (thankfully) ...

On November8, Mercurywill transit the Sun. From Earth, we'll see the silhouette of Mercurytravel across the disk of the Sun. Transits are uncommon but predictableevents. The geometry of Mercury (or ...