A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new, exotic class of exoplanets: super-Earths formed at high ...

Pluribus Episode 8 is titled Charm Offensive and was released on December 19, 2025, on Apple TV. The penultimate episode of Vince Gilligan’s critically acclaimed sci-fi series presented viewers with ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

A planet of diamonds sounds like a fairy tale but 55 Cancri e is no fantasy. Located 40 lightyears from Earth, this super-Earth formed under such brutal heat and pressure that its carbon-rich interior ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

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New research suggests a rocky “lava planet” orbiting very close to its star likely carries an atmosphere. Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s ...

In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark ...