NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky dismantling of the space shuttle Discovery (because Texas insists), to a ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very first exoplanet to be discovered around a sun-like star was revealed. Called 51 Pegasi b, it was a ...

In principle, discovering new exoplanets is pretty easy. Simply measure the brightness of a star over time, and when a planet passes in front of the star, the brightness will dim slightly. The more ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

Detecting exoplanets at all is difficult—they typically emit much less than 1% of a host star's brightness. Eclipse mapping requires measuring small fractions of that total as a planet circles behind ...

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Exoplanets—worlds orbiting distant stars—were once only theory, until scientists found the first evidence beyond our solar ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Bill Belichick‘s first season coaching college football is getting off to a rocky start. But it seems fans at home will not be getting that inside look they were hoping ...

PHILADELPHIA − The day is arriving when Philadelphia Eagles fans will have a new way to leap into the Saquon Barkley story. The second-year Eagles running back is the subject of an Amazon Prime ...