Twelve years ago, NASA made an exciting prediction: the Kepler telescope would discover around 50 Earth-like planets, planets that closely resemble our own in size, temperature, and proximity to a ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University ...

Astronomers have recently discovered a massive exoplanet, Kepler-139f, hidden within a known star system. This Neptune-sized ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what ...

Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.

As of Tuesday, Aug. 12, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 88% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. There's a lot to see on the moon tonight, and it's also the ...

A Nature study finds that many Sun-like stars start life with a tilt. Their spin axes and planet nurseries do not always line ...

HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have ...

The intense proximity to its star exposes BD+05 4868 b to extreme temperatures capable of melting rock. According to Dr. Hon, ...

HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have ...

NASA is preparing 1st crewed mission to lunar surface in half decade via Artemis program as it continues surveying Mars, ...