Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, ...

The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the James ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

This figure from the team's modelling illustrates some of their findings. The planet is not to scale in this ... While TESS discovered the disintegrating planet in the previous paper, Kepler found ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...

In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying weather on the planet since 2016 said findings show ... Observatory's Very Large Telescope.