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

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

Astronomy news today is packed with discoveries about the Sun, including tiny solar loops and hidden engines that drive solar ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

Thirty years ago, astronomers didn’t know if planets around other stars were common. Today, NASA says we’ve confirmed 6,000 exoplanets — a staggering number considering the first definitive discovery ...

A striking example is the exoplanet WASP-121b, also known as Tylos. Due to its nearly intimate proximity to its host star, ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...