Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

A NASA-funded team has created a new model that explains the scarcity of planets with masses between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. The new model aims to explain two puzzling observations that ...

Since 1993, when satellites started measuring sea level, the rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled, according to NASA ...

Today, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 5,197 in 3,888 planetary systems, with another 8,992 candidates awaiting confirmation. The majority have been particularly massive planets, ranging ...

Scientists on a new project led by CU Boulder will develop “worlds in a box” to study the conditions that might make far away planets habitable. The research is part of NASA’s Interdisciplinary ...