For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Experts have determined it to be a "super-puff," an exoplanet with a large but extended atmosphere. The most noteworthy ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts – NASA on Oct. 1 launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that ...

Scientists are developing PoET, a new EU-funded solar telescope, to overcome stellar noise hindering the search for ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Have you ever catch yourself smiling when you see a baby photo? Maybe it's a newborn snoozing peacefully or a little face ...

The Earth-Romulan War is a major cornerstone of 'Star Trek' history—but it's also 'Star Trek' history that's largely kept it ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...