After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

A from Maynooth University will study how stars and planets form using a new ultraviolent telescope that launched into space last week.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...