Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

A decades-old astronomical mystery has finally been solved—an enigmatic X-ray signal emanating from deep space turns out to ...

Astronomers have identified an extreme exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that is reshaping our understanding of planetary atmospheres.

While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made a captivating discovery in the area of planets beyond Earth. A unique planet named 55 ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

For more than 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals coming from the Helix Nebula, a cloud of gas ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...