Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks soared to one of their best days in history on a euphoric Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he would back off on most of his tariffs temporarily, as ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is touting a Supreme Court ruling allowing it to resume deportations under the ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...