Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...