The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday, Ars reports. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Lariocidin is a newly discovered antibiotic from soil bacteria. It targets the bacterial ribosome, defeating resistant ...

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...

Yellowstone has never erupted within recorded human history. But a new discovery has highlighted just how active this ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While the system contains two planets—a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune—it is the ...