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

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

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 ...

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

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 vehicle went hypersonic for the first time in December, then repeated the feat in March.

Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes refer to planets between the size of our solar system’s largest rocky planet, Earth, and the smallest gas giant, Neptune.

Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet. The two brown dwarfs are gravitationally ... Of the approximately 5,800 planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - confirmed to date, only 16 ...