NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular scene in a star system not far from Earth, offering the rare chance ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

An exoplanet located 2,000 light years from Earth is so unusual it’s given astronomers the idea that it could be a totally ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Posts claiming a celestial "smiley face” will light up the night sky over Christmas aren't true. But the Christmas Tree ...