Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

Texas is fast becoming the center of America’s new space frontier—a hub fueling a multibillion-dollar race beyond Earth. In this modern gold rush to the stars, ...

On this month’s episode of The Sky Above, host Leah Pezzetti discusses upcoming astronomical events and also the race to ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. "Moons likely outnumber planets ...