The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

We have never directly detected volcanic activity outside our solar system, in part because current telescopes aren’t powerful enough to take images of exoplanets’ surfaces. We might be able ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

ridge and savanna observed in the Neptunian landscape. The team will now turn to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its ...

Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ... exist that the term "evokes a deserted landscape," NASA officials wrote in a ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar system's speed through the Milky Way. The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 ...

A new exoplanet, TOI-6038 A b, has been discovered orbiting a bright late F-type star about 578 light-years away. It is approximately 6.41 times the radius and 78.5 times the mass of Earth, with a ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way. A group of astronomers may have discovered a planetary system that races through ...