Scientists have found a protective bubble around a young star, HD 61005. This astrosphere, similar to our Sun's heliosphere, shields planet...

Astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets, with thousands of exoplanets now confirmed. While Proxima Centauri b is the clos...

Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially habitable exopla...

Scientists have confirmed that eruptions from distant stars can escape their star's pull. A radio telescope in the Netherlands detected a t...

Pandora, a small satellite, is set to study at least 20 known exoplanets to analyze their atmospheres for hazes, clouds, and water. This un...

Aroh Barjatya, an India-born researcher, led NASA's recent mission launching sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse visible in Nor...

The launch of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the spacecraft was scrubbed yesterday due to a violation of a launc...

Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Sun-like stars and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth, making the a...

The lack of atmosphere leaves the surface exposed to harmful stellar radiation, reducing the planet's potential for habitability.

Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...

Scientists, including those from Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, studied the planet known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times th...

Washington, March 31 (IANS) Solar wind and radiation were responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet...

Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) A recently discovered Earth-sized planet, dubbed Proxima b, which orbits within the "habitable zone" of the red dw...

The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could potentially allow liquid water ...

Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres..

The study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti shows that a magnetic field plays a key role in making a planet conducive to life.

"On the night side of the planet, temperatures normally fall with altitude, but we noticed a peak in the chart in the 90 to 100 kilometre r...