The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter"), was the first transiting planet ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among of the most famous scenes in pop culture. When Star Wars debuted in 1977, ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...