NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the ...

Learn about the first images of low-mass stars captured by SPARCS, a nanosatellite that could provide insight into exoplanets ...

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing ...

Astronomers have detected an Earth-size planet candidate orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

Earth-size planet (HD 137010 b) found orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for finding life.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Nearby red dwarfs are turning into rich laboratories for studying small rocky worlds. One such star now stands out as a system with four or more planets, including at least one in the habitable zone ...