On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope opens new windows into the cosmos and the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope follows closely ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

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, ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made yet another exciting discovery—but it never works alone. Thanks ...

Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...