From still lakes to shifting shores, waves play a bigger role than we think—even on worlds we’ve never directly observed.

Some of you film buffs know it as a distant planet called Fiorina 161. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

Scientists have discovered natural space weather stations that exist around distant stars because these stations can determine the habitability of nearby planets. The research results which Luke Bouma ...

WASHINGTON-Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape – covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a noxious and ...

Expedition imagines what humans might encounter when exploring an alien world. In this video we dive into the planet’s environment and the lifeforms that inhabit it. Everything is built using ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

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 ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...