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Clouds on 'Failed Stars' Resemble Those on Neptune
August 17, 2017 | ArticleFor the first time, scientists have seen bands of clouds drifting across the skies of failed stars known as brown dwarfs.
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TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Twice As Old As Earth
August 17, 2017 | ArticleLife has had a long time to potentially get a foothold on the rocky planets circling the tiny, dim star TRAPPIST-1, a new study suggests.
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How Eclipses Reveal Information About Alien Worlds, Light-Years Away
August 16, 2017 | ArticleMost "eclipses" don't involve the sun and the moon at all.
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The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!
August 12, 2017 | CountdownA project to make phone calls to the moon, an alien-life crowdfunding campaign, free live telescope feeds, and Einstein getting proven right yet again are some of Space.com's top stories of the week.
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Hubble Telescope Detects Stratosphere on Huge Alien Planet
August 03, 2017 | ArticleA huge, superhot alien planet likely has a stratrosphere, like Earth does, a new study reports. The find suggests that layered atmospheres may be common traits of worlds around the galaxy, researchers said.
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Cameras on NASA Exoplanet Spacecraft Slightly Out of Focus
August 02, 2017 | ArticleCameras recently installed on NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft will be slightly out of focus once launched, but the agency said that will not affect the mission's science.
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Giant 'Rogue' Worlds Are Less Common Than Scientists Thought
July 24, 2017 | ArticleThere probably aren't nearly as many giant planets zooming alone through the Milky Way galaxy as scientists had thought, a new study reports.
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A Simple Bacteria Reveals How Stress Drives Evolution
July 19, 2017 | ArticleA common bacteria is furthering evidence that evolution is not entirely a blind process, subject to random changes in the genes, but that environmental stressors can also play a role.
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New Exoplanet-Hunting Instrument Provides Wider View of the Night Sky
July 19, 2017 | ArticleA new addition to the European Southern Observatory's network lets scientists capture a nearly complete view of the night sky.
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Red Dots Campaign Hunts Planets at Nearby Barnard's Star
July 19, 2017 | ArticleThe Red Dots Campaign, in which astronomers scan the night sky to discover planets around some of the nearest stars to Earth, has recently begun focusing in on one of the sun's closest cousins, Barnard's Star.
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