Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

Scientists have discovered the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a carbon-rich disk surrounding an exoplanet hundreds of light years away that could reveal how moons ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Space news in 2025 is just wild. Every week, it feels like something new is happening—Mars rovers sending back weird photos, ...

From the sea to the stars, two University of Delaware doctoral students — one studying the ocean and the other the cosmos — ...

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor ...

A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...