The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

A new study using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has overturned long-held beliefs about mini-Neptune exoplanets. Earlier, scientists assumed these planets—smaller than Neptune but ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Physicist Brian Cox dismisses alien claims about comet 3I/Atlas, calling it a natural interstellar relic and “a message from a dead world.” ...

A tremendous effort is underway at NASA to send humans to Mars and return astronauts to the moon, including the flight  of ...

Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of space object that is neither a star nor a planet, ...

Following its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to reappear in our skies. Observers ...