We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...