A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe with an ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

The recent United States government's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was recently signed into law has good news for the ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth.

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...