"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. The planet is five ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech, via Space ...