Astronomers had hoped to observe an atmosphere on one of the seven planets known to orbit Trappist-1, a red dwarf star. A new ...

Boy, how the world has changed over the past 10 years, but perhaps not as profoundly as our understanding of another, more ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

An ultra-short period planet is spiraling toward destruction within 31 million years. Its extreme heat and dense composition reveal a violent past. Our circumstances here on the wondrous, ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed a young brown dwarf known as Cha Hα 1. As a result, ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...