The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays.

Anyone who's ever seen aircraft engaged in formation flying can appreciate the feat of staying highly synchronized while airborne. In work sponsored by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), ...