In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

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

There could be a ninth planet in our solar system that's lying in wait to be discovered - and no, it's not Pluto. Our solar ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

The Hubble Space Telescope brings out the chaotic processes inside Dracula's Chivito, the largest protoplanetary disk ever ...

Hubble spots the largest known planet forming disk, chaotic and lopsided, hiding a young star 1,000 light years away, raising ...

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 ...

But that’s nothing compared with PSR J2322-2650b, an object the mass of Jupiter studied recently by the James Webb Space Telescope. This planet’s equatorial diameter is about 38 percent wider than its ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...