Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

On exoplanets, we cannot see any details directly. In particular, "hot Jupiters" orbit so close to their stars that we cannot separate them spatially and take photos of the exoplanets. Instead ...

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

Today's mission, which Rocket Lab calls "The Lightning God Reigns," successfully sent the QPS-SAR-9 satellite to a circular ...

On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents.

LRO, which has been studying the moon from lunar orbit since 2009, has also captured photos of Blue Ghost ... He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...