One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

The largest planet-forming disk ever observed, nicknamed Dracula’s Chivito after a Uruguayan sandwich, has been revealed to ...

An exoplanet located 2,000 light years from Earth is so unusual it’s given astronomers the idea that it could be a totally ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

All of the planets of the solar system are visible together in the night sky right now, providing stargazers with a "spectacular" show to end the year. Over the next few days, it is possible to see ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern ...