One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Why now: In April, current Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced he'd retire after the 2025-26 academic year.

Backstory: From being out of town the day the Palisades fire started to reports her fire department glossed over serious ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving ...

The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the previous year's funding — in its ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

An accomplished astrophysicist and academic leader, Jayawardhana has served as provost at Johns Hopkins since 2023 ...

In the far future on the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are long gone but the robotic worker drones they created to mine the planet’s resources are still hard at work.

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...