A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that super-Earth exoplanets—rocky planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—may ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date. 1.

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

If it feels like the tide is turning and we’re on the brink of a whole different vibe, that’s because a major, rare ...

Between April 19 and May 20, the sun will journey through this Earth sign ... on past relationships or habits that no longer ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

GI 410 b, the newly discovered planet, falls in the sub-Neptune class and is larger than ... It's a cold, faint star and half the mass of the Sun. It's about the same temperature as 3,842 Kelvin.