Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

The biggest implication for this finding, if confirmed, is that planets of different sizes form at different rates than previously believed. Most importantly, theories about the likelihood of life in ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...

Three years into its mission, Webb continues to deliver on its design – revealing previously hidden aspects of the universe, from the star formation process to some of the earliest galaxies,” said ...

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, and they orbit each other widely, indicating that their protoplanetary disks ...

Thousands of these planets have been found through indirect methods. But direct images are rare because exoplanets are dim and hide in the glare of their stars.

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in 1968 aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket, as per the National Space Centre.

As the number of confirmed exoplanets approaches 6,000, Earth-sized exoplanets like GJ 12 b are helping astronomers better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets orbiting M dwarf ...

The number of confirmed exoplanets — worlds that don't orbit the sun — has tipped 5,900, according to NASA, with thousands more candidates.

The Pittsburgh Penguins traded the N0. 12 overall selection in the ongoing NHL draft to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for the 22nd and 31 overall selections. This selection (No. 12) was ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.