An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, the US space agency NASA released new high-definition photos ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System ... planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

while not present in our solar system, is what NASA says is among "the most common type of planet known so far in the galaxy.” For the most recent discovery, a team of researchers used a ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take ...

LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they ...

TOI-270 d, located just 73 light years away, could be key to understanding a new class of planets. A study revealed it may be a giant rocky planet with a thick, hot atmosphere. NASA’s JWST detected ...