The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...

If humanity was forced to leave Earth and settle on another planet, where would we go? Well, today, we will look at six of ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have changed our world for the better. Advances in medicine have allowed for ...