More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...