Named for Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA's first chief astronomer, it will be located approximately 1.5 million ...

Earth's auroras look a bit different from above. NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured two amazing videos of our planet's natural light shows from the International Space Station (ISS) last week.

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the search for another Earth. A team from the University of Bern and the Swiss ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their ...