Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

Researchers studying mysterious objects at the edge of the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope find origin of ...

NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Detects a 10-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds on Mercury The innermost planet of our solar system, ...

Often referred to as "the gift that keeps giving," the HST has provided not just magnificent science — shared worldwide — but also some of our universe's most significant and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and potentially life. A new study overturns old theories by showing that these elements ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

According to the study conducted using Korean Microlensing data in which light from faraway objects is amplified through the ...

A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...