We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it does? To understand our place in the cosmos, we look to what has gone before.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.